In my experience, many people settle for too little
— @SirKenRobinson
Think about how many of those 80 billion or so people had to meet each other and hang out, and in what different circumstances, during the course of those fifty thousand years, before your own parents ran into each other and eventually conceived you. The fact is, as the Dalai Lama puts it, being born at all is a miracle.
So congratulations: you made it.
And now that you are here, to quote the Dalai Lama again, what are you going to do with this brief life?
This is a partial except from an essay in the bestseller End Malaria. Click here to find out more.