Humans are amazing. When you really think about it. Even after you think about all the shitty stuff we've done, we're pretty fucking amazing. I stole this from another blog I read:
"Richard Dawkins said that all of the circumstances that led to our being alive, all put together, are so unlikely to happen – my mum could have just not slept with my dad, or a different sperm could have got through, or they’d have never met because my mum chose not to work at the bakery, or a million other things. Someone else could have been here instead of me, and it’s likely that these unborn ‘ghosts’ that never will be would include better musicians than Mozart, better writers than Shakespeare; and yet, I’m the one who gets his little moment to do things in his brief time on this planet.
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So we’ve evolved to a point where we can put strings on wood and make sounds, and change the shapes of our fingers to put like sounds together, and then here I am all this time later, listening to Green Day do just that – IN MY EARS! That’s AMAZING! So even though the scope of my existence doesn’t accommodate a supreme being, I still have plenty of reasons to look at the things around me with wonder."
He was talking about being an atheist and other such related things. And while I'm still sitting in the camp of being agnostic, his post made a lot of sense, and it also blew my mind because I was trying to comprehend how fucking crazy awesome the universe is to have culminated into this very moment, right now.
It's pretty cool.
On a side note: I have not studied for any finals as of yet. I have my Social Sciences section of my Honors classes on Wednesday morning, and Latin Wednesday afternoon. And the Humanities section of Honors on Friday morning. Sigh. I'm doomed.
