We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones
\nMost people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
\nThe potential people who could have been here in my place\u00a0
\nBut who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara
\nCertainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton
\nWe know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA\u00a0
\nSo massively exceeds the set of actual people
\nIn the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here
\nWe privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds
\nHow dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state\u00a0
\nFrom which the vast majority have never stirred?”<\/p>\n
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers
\nHaving been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
\nAnd that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity
\nFrom so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been
\nAnd are being, evolved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born The potential people who could have been here in my place\u00a0 But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara … Continue reading On life – from a song lyrics of a nordic band<\/span>