Hi everyone,
The world is getting increasingly complex, and it is easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of all that is going on- to feel too small, too alone. Often, we don't even have time to worry about these things because our personal lives might be coming apart, and we don't know how we will get through things.
So how do we find hope in the face of overwhelming odds?
In this essay, I turn to cosmology and evolutionary biology to make an argument that’s both rational and mythic: our very existence is a statistical rebellion against impossibility. We’ve beaten worse odds just to be here. By some estimates, the odds of us being alive are just 1 in 10^2.7 million. That is a number so small that we can’t possibly wrap our heads around it.
We have survived the ice ages, asteroids, plagues, and invaders just to be here.
It’s a reminder that though all might seem lost at times, our ingenuity and resilience are unbounded, and the tide can turn at any moment.
Please give it a read and let me know what you think:
https://akhilpuri.substack.com/p/laughing-in-the-face-of-impossible
by zenpenguin19