WHEN YOU THINK about it, its a wonder we're still here, alive, on this particular planet, doing all the things we do. Life is a great blessing, it seems. A blessing that as of yet no asteroid has come plunging through the atmosphere, vaporizing us.
Lucky that no star near us has gone nova with enough power to fry us. Actually, it doesn't even have to be close us us, frighteningly. Any star in "our" galaxy can at any time explode with sufficient output of deadly radiation to kill all life on earth.
We're just lucky that it hasn't happened, yet. If it does, its been nice knowin' y'all.
Then the things we do here on earth only add to the excitement. Every so often a big explosion rocks some busy section of some american city, and investigation reveals it to have been a natural gas explosion, and we act surprised.
We suck this highly flammable, highly volatile and explosive gas out of the ground, fill millions of miles of pipeline with it, put it back in the ground, then build houses and other buildings on top of it. What do we expect? We should expect a lot of heat for our homes, and a little excitement, now and then.
Racing along two lane highways lickitysplit bumper to bumper adds to the excitement, as does digging super heavy metals deep out of the earth, and converting their huge mass into huge energy slowly, or sometimes quite suddenly.
We fly all over the place, explore every mountain and ocean, and dream of traveling freely throughout space, as we will probably soon do.
So the next time you awaken some morning thinking your life is boring, think again. It aint. In fact, its terribly exciting. Dangerous, risky, exciting, because of the huge payoffs associated with said danger and excitement.
Forty years ago a good friend of mine wrote a book in which he made the remark "a gambler is anyone who gets out of bed in the morning." How very true.
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