And yet, here we are.

This is humanity in a nutshell. Our planet is one of countless trillions, spinning around an ordinary star, in an ordinary galaxy, in an ordinary cluster.

The fact that life was able to happen at all, that amino acids formed proteins, those proteins mutated and multiplied into single cell life, into polycellular life, into intelligent life that can think, talk, that can create such technological wonders to allow one to call out into the vast void and receive human interaction, it's amazing.

So many things could have gone wrong at any point in time. So many things HAVE gone wrong in the 20th century alone. Wars, famines, plagues, climate change, so many things could have wiped us all out, and yet, here we are.

Many histories, many stories, civilizations, are gone, dust in the wind, nothing left of them, not even records of their existence. Forever lost to history. Who knows how many civilizations have been forgotten by time?

And yet, here we are. However improbable it may seem, we are alive. I think that's pretty damn cool.

I'm not so blind as to pretend we're perfect, far from it. I don't think we'll ever be perfect, given that requires a level of objectivity that I don't think we're capable given our inherently subjective experience. But I think we can improve. And I've got a few millenia of proof backing me up on that.

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[Warlord1911D1]

Well spoken.