Life
There are 3 reasons never to be unhappy.
First, you were born. Did you know that each time your father ejaculated, he produced roughly 25 million spermatozoa - enough to repopulate Britain every 2 days or so? You had to win a race against 24,999,999 or so other wriggling contenders, all rushing to swim the English Channel of your mother's vagina in order to be the first ashore at the fertile egg. Being born was easily the most remarkable achievement of your whole life.
Second, you are alive. That you are able to sit here right now in this one never-to-be-repeated moment, reading this, eating snacks, speculatively sniffing your armpits, doing whatever you are doing - just existing - is really wondrous beyond belief.
Third, you have plenty to eat, you live in a time of peace.
If you bear these things in mind, you will never be truly unhappy.
(extracted from Notes From A Small Island)
I spent the whole afternoon watching this show on the History Channel - How Life Began, when I should be packing my room. It's not exactly fantastic, most of the information are what we already know, like Aristotle's first insights, Darwin's Evolution Theory, Stanley Miller's experiment and of course, scientists around the world competing to publish their answer.
The interesting thing is how little we actually concluded from all these efforts.
"Maybe we'll never figure it out, but Earth figured it out. Universe is not only stranger than we have imagined, it may be stranger than we can't imagine. And so, this gap between what are ingredients for life and life itself, will we figure it out next year, I don't know. 10 years, I don't know. A century, I don't know, but I'll tell you this. The search will surely lead to other discoveries about how life works and that can only be a good thing."
posted by WSW at 9:41 PM
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