Life is a chain of events. I am sure all of us must have looked back at events in our life and wondered if we could have predicted them. To rephrase this, if you were asked to predict what you would be doing in a year or so from now (in fine grained detail) and asked to bet your iPhone on it, would you take the bet? Probably not. You could squeeze your brain for every ounce of creativity and come up with a myriad probable paths for your future, but rest assured that “real life” although not dressed in a red coat and riding a sledge pulled by flying reindeer, will deliver surprises much bigger. To quote Conan Doyle from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories- “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” I remember one of my friends who writes here- I came I saw I floundered , had a similar view. I didn’t give it much thought then. The more I think about it now, the more I am struck by the vastness in which we exist and without which life would be predictable and devoid of such variety. Without digressing much and exposing my poor Physics know-how, I would like to draw your attention to Quantum mechanics and the theory of parallel universes. The former states that a particle can take an infinite number of paths at each point in it’s history and the latter conjectures that there are an infinite number of universes encompassing everything that can possibly exist (So you could be a dictator in one, a singer in the other etc). With an infinite number of possibilities it is no wonder that we can’t foresee our future. I find comfort in this fact. For to know your future would mean that you know what you can and (more importantly) can’t do. I would rather be surprised to meet an old friend rather than to greet him/her with a “I know I would find you here” smile. Or, twist my leg trying to skate rather than not trying at all knowing that I can’t- which brings me to astrology. If astrologers could indeed predict what or where I would end up in a few years I could carefully orchestrate my life for the next few years to make sure that the prediction doesn’t work, which would mean a fail for astrology!
The beauty of life lies in it’s inconceivable expanse- both in space and time. If ever you thought human beings and earth have a special role, the vastness and by extension the probability of much advanced life forms existing will humble you. And more importantly, if you are faced with a problem, rest assured that someone, somewhere and at some point of time in our 50,000 year odd history must have grappled with it and probably solved it and so you are not alone when you face problems on this third rock from the Sun.
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