Stuffs that bother me that probably shouldn't

A couple of days back I came across this post by Lauren Paul:

I was having dinner with a couple friends last night and we started talking about the odds of existing. How intricate and perfect the journey had to be, prior to us each coming into existence, in order for us to be alive, right now. @jedidiahjenkins sent me this passage this morning and my head exploded into a billion stars reading it. I hope you read it and that it reminds you of how truly miraculous YOU are. “Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favoured evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely - make that miraculously - fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that would result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly - in you.” - Bill Bryson ✨✨✨✨✨

A post shared by Lauren Paul (@laurenpaul8) on Nov 30, 2017 at 11:17am PST

At first my head too "exploded into a billion stars" realizing just very special I am. But then I had to remind myself how very useless I am as well and whether all of that was worth it at all. Technically, it isn't. I mean no one is really living with this sole purpose to procreate..oh wait. Indians. But may be it doesn't have to be. May be 'life' doesn't have to be of any use to matter.

Have you ever wondered how thin the line is in between the opposites?  We like to believe that things are either black or white although we operate mostly in the grey area. These fine lines baffle me.

On one hand I am so incredibly glad to be alive, for everything that has led upto this point for me to type these intricate lines that translate into words that you can in turn read and understand, more or less the way I mean it to be understood. This itself is a miracle! Add to the fact that we live in the era of information where every little detail on any topic imaginable, however bizarre,  is accessible at the tip of our fingers. It is insane how lucky we all are!

But on the other hand, I can't help but wonder, should it even matter? How can life be a miracle when so much is wrong in this world? What good are these information if it has the potential to open up a whole new branch of misery? I mean in terms of fake news, cyber-bullying, etc. Yes, i know, evolution, progress, new problems new solutions, etc. Is it really worth it though? What is even the point?

Then I come across some bizarre-ass theories which shouldn't make sense at all, but somehow they do.

I only recently got to know about the Simulation Hypothesis from a friend and have been spreading the word ever since, although I'm not sure how healthy that is. But what gives me goosebumps is when I think about how advanced Mahabharata was, talking about test-tube babies and stem culture and what not, and that was written thousands of years ago. Or take the Indus Valley civilisation for instance. Pretty advanced for it's time. But doesn't it make us feel like we haven't progressed as much as we could/should have? Should I even use this "hypothesis" in the same sentence as this, or does it get too real? I can think of so many "fictional" work that has oscillated around this theory. The Divergent series, the Maze Runner series, the infinite tsukuyomi from Naruto (it is actually quite accurate for this theory), Inception and of course The Westworld. I mean we are already creating conscious beings. Is it too far-fetched to anticipate posthuman civilisation (if they get to see the light of day that is) to run ancestor-simulations? Or that WE are not in one now?

Confused yet?

Of course it doesn't change anything. People are still born, people will still die.

And of course I am not delusional enough to believe this to be true, but someone has thought about this and I think it is beautiful how convincing this seems. 

Let me conclude with something that Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out in some interview. Bizarre concepts and theories have always been there; they have just found a new voice in internet. When we think of the most ridiculous thing and we realize that 10 other people have thought of the same thing, it gives us a false impression that we are "on to something", encouraging us to keep up with it. 

We humans are kind of like creepers; we always like to have something to cling on to. Something to thank when things go right, but mostly to blame when things don't work out. Be it God, religion, family or friends, partners, anything really.

So, just live a little. We are incapable of doing anything else anyway!

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P.S.- These are some random musings of an inquisitive individual with no degree in anything remotely close to what I discussed above. So constructive criticism/alternate views on any of the above will be very much appreciated.

Thanks for reading!