If you are reading this, you made it through all previous filters, that is through all previous extinctions, even those associated only with humans, maybe a pandemic. Almost everyone knows about the five major extinctions or about the one that has received the most press, the extinction event that killed off the nonavian dinosaurs. But extinction is an ongoing process with untold millions of species coming into and going out of existence. And in all those extinctions large and small, that line of existence that led to you remained unbroken. Imagine a series of screens or filters stacked on a shaker, the type used by sedimentologists to obtain the fractions of particle sizes in a sample of silts and sands. Regardless of the size of the mesh, the particle called you made it through to the present.
You’re here. You made it. Be happy for yourself and your loved ones because they also made it through the filters of death. Think, however, how difficult your lifeline’s journey has been from the first eukaryotes to the animals to you. You’ve been either lucky or blessed, depending on your belief system. Regardless of your considering yourself the product of Fortune or Providence, you might smile today in the realization that nothing interrupted that line.
Sure, it’s a reality that you had nothing to do with your ancestors’ escaping all those truncating events. And sure, it’s a bit puzzling that some of your contemporaries have chosen to do their own truncating through suicide. But surely, also, you have cause to rejoice in your living. Congratulations! You made it this far. Now don’t do anything to screw up this opportunity.
This is not your practice life.
You’re here. You made it. Be happy for yourself and your loved ones because they also made it through the filters of death. Think, however, how difficult your lifeline’s journey has been from the first eukaryotes to the animals to you. You’ve been either lucky or blessed, depending on your belief system. Regardless of your considering yourself the product of Fortune or Providence, you might smile today in the realization that nothing interrupted that line.
Sure, it’s a reality that you had nothing to do with your ancestors’ escaping all those truncating events. And sure, it’s a bit puzzling that some of your contemporaries have chosen to do their own truncating through suicide. But surely, also, you have cause to rejoice in your living. Congratulations! You made it this far. Now don’t do anything to screw up this opportunity.
This is not your practice life.
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