Thesis:

A large portion of most people’s lives is spent wishing for something – to have more money, to be more famous, to achieve this and that. However, just by being born a human on earth, you’ve beaten incredibly larger odds than the odds of you having that life you wish you had, being that millionaire or famous actor/etc.



Let’s suppose your odds of being a millionaire (if you are in the US) are about 100 to 1.

But what are the odds of our planet being here? Or having life? Or you being born as a human instead of some other life form. These odds are infinitely large, we can’t be sure of an exact number, but it’s a number followed by many and many zeroes.

Does it make sense to sit there and fret about you not winning the 100 to 1 odds after you won something that is quadrillion to one odds? No matter what happens, you’ve won the greatest (as far as we know) game in the Universe! Congratulations!

Every single human on earth is a winner. Some peasant in a village who farms all day for $1/day, or someone who works a minimum wage job at a Fast Food restaurant their whole life, they are still the winners in the greatest game in this Universe, even though perhaps they don’t always realize this. They have received and experienced the incredibly miracle of life, and beaten incredible odds just to be here.

You ALREADY WON the Universe’s greatest lottery of life by being born on the only Planet we know within quadrillions of kilometers of empty cold deadly space that has life, due to no achievement of your own. From this, we can conclude that all other achievements are the same way – either nature destined and selected you to achieve or not – it’s not under your control, nor is it your fault either way.

Earth formed by an incredible cosmic process from cosmic debree. From all probably odds, Earth shouldn’t be here, it should be empty space. Then, against all odds, Earth had life. Amoebas formed organisms, those organisms formed other organisms. If one little thing went differently, or temperature was 1 degree off somewhere, humans would not be here. Then, humanity started, went through countless wars, famines, genocide. Your relatives survived all of that, and gave life to you. The odds of you being here can probably be expressed by trillions or quadrillions to one. And yet you are here.

The reason people don’t feel this overwhelming sense of happiness for every second they exist in this world is because nature doesn’t provide a comparative reference to quadrillions of potential humans who did not get selected to be born. In fact, virtually every living thing on earth has won the incredible lottery of life.