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by johnea
540 days ago
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It never ceases to amaze me how vacuously shallow the answers to this type of question are (on HN, and in general). It really is quite clear how few people really appreciate what a miracle their life is. Literally, the probability of you being here reading this right now is so astronomically low, as to mathematically qualify as a miracle. Almost every response to this type of question is within the context of the person's job. What a failure of perspective. Is your world really that tiny? Maybe you should pull your head out of your iPhone? There was a whole lot of time, let's just call it an eternity, before each of us was born. There will be another whole lot of time, let's just call it another eternity, after we're dead. During this tiny little gap in between those eternities is this little window where each of us gets to be a conscious entity. A tiny transient spark of life, aware of the universe around us. Given that context, you're saying you can't understand why you should be happy to be here? |
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I think you miss the aspect of how insignificant existence is locally.
Sure the odds are astronomical but you weren't there to experience that measure in it's entirety i.e the the billions of years for you to experience the specialness of the blip. Also compare that with billions of people current existing at the same time as you who are also the product of this astronomial odds. The awe of the statement of the specialness of existence quickly fades away when you take the former statement into consideration
One could take this in the opposite way, we're so special that we are barely get to live long enough to experience reality for what it is and have to make do with such a tiny drop. The unfairness of it is misery inducing. We are so special that we get to appreciate this specialness only if we're lucky enough to be born in a first world country and to decent parents and born healthy. Aside from that we have spent a very significant time sleeping, pooping, dealing with BS, dealing with things out of our control etc etc
Existing is truly miserable if you aren't living in a first world country.
Man your statement is just hollow. The astronomical odds of existence is nothing celebrate by itself just as hope by itself is useless