Existential Wonderment

To live, to breath, to see, to hear, to think, to exist. This is the greatest miracle the Universe has provided. Not the orbital’s of gigantic plants, the convulsion of stars into black holes, or the tons of energy expanded from a supernova. No, all these events pale in comparison to a millisecond of the existence of human. Every miracle possible has occurred to join together the exact combination of tissues, cells, and ideas to create the perfect machine, able to contemplate it’s place in a universe of such great marvels and miraculous events, and able to look into the stars and measure it's minuteness. But rest assured if the sun had the ability to think even it would bow down to the complexity of our species. But the only flaw we have is also our greatest motivator, the flaw of desire. The desire to be better then we were yesterday, the desire to outdo the greatest of the great, the desire to be immortal through remembrance. But sometimes when striving towards the surely unimaginable goals our species has set for itself (and constantly achieved and surpassed) we sometimes forget to realize the beauty of being alive. Every second of living is a gift, either the power of god at work, a nod from the cosmos, or divine outcome of time, but whatever it is this miracle is not guaranteed to be around forever. So go out and enjoy the most basic and enjoyable part of the human experience, being alive.