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Don’t Take This The Wrong Way, But . . .
What’ll you miss most when you’re dead? Radical Gratitude, day ten.
Think of yourself as dead. Temporarily. I’ll explain why in a minute.
Now that I’m 1/3 of the way into my 30-day Radical Gratitude self-challenge, in which I commit to writing daily about something I discover in everyday life that I recognize as miraculous and worthy of appreciation, the obvious is becoming clear to me. Maybe it is to you already, but I’m going to share with you my small revelation . . .
Pretty much everything is a miracle, if you think about it.
Your own life, for instance. The very unlikelihood of your existence — out of all the potential couplings in the entire world, two people with a particular constellation of genetic attributes had to find one another and, well, combine. And out of their zillions of possible combinations, one particular spermatozoon had to infiltrate that month’s egg — at precisely the right time — resulting in the potential that eventually, against all odds, became you.
And here you are, on the only planet we know for sure supports life as we understand it, tiny and vulnerable and whizzing around in a solar system inside a galaxy that’s…
