Mumu's Oracular Vision

Friday, October 24, 2008

Collusion of Chance and Probability - Ode to Everybody

Now that you mentioned god; sometimes it is hard not to feel tempted to believe in the existence of a higher being, some inscrutable intent in this grand mystery called life which guides us all. It is not because I fear non-existence, that I fear becoming nothing – that is an irrefragable eventuality I have learned to embrace with tired resignation; what is the use of fighting, might as well treasure the present to live and love. But I am oft tempted to believe in this greater intent, this invisible hand that guides us all, because I have seen so many instances of dispensed good will, not from camaraderie of human comradeship, but from some sheer ‘coincidence’ or intent.

If you do it mathematically, I am not good at this but you probably know the odds clearer than me, for us to go through our respective lives, to chance upon it entwining, and arriving at where we are today. If you calculate how many more infinite possibilities there could have, how a single sneeze could have changed it so inexplicably, or how even going through the same events, how we could have passed on like ships in the night – ever the twain – it brings into perspective how rare every instance in this life remains, and how doubly rare and vital every shared instance we might have is. And triply blessed it makes all things in life.

Words fail me. Failing to capture the sense of grandeur and humility I feel everyday - knowing from whence I came, and where I am, and that you are here with me.

Dinesen @ 10:58 PM

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