Back To The Future: My Crazy Life

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In another post, I explained that my father was the youngest of ten children. So I was asking my great grandson, if he realized what a miracle it was that he was alive today. He said, “What do you mean by that?” So, I said: “Let me explain something. You saw the movie, “Back To The Future,” right? He said he had seen all the episodes. “So you saw in that movie, how changing something in the past could completely redirect the future?” He said: “Yes, but what does that have to do with me being alive?” So, I told him. “My grandmother had ten children. My father was the youngest of the ten. What if, she had said that nine children are enough and my father would have never been born?” So he said: “So what?” I told him to think about it and then he said: “Then you would never have been born, and my grandmother, would never have been born, and my father, would never have been born and so then I would never have been born.” He concluded correctly, raising his eyebrows. He’s 13 years old. “That’s right!” I said: “You can even go back even farther than that.” Every link to your birth determined the fact that you are alive today. If anything had interrupted that chain of events, you might not be alive today. But, you are. If we take time to meditate on that fact, we should come to appreciate that it’s truly a miracle that any of us exist today. We should also appreciate that each person is IMPORTANT and can contribute to the welfare of someone else. So, the question is: Why are we here? Is there something that we are supposed to accomplish? OR are we wasting the time we have here on earth? What can we individually do to make our life better, not only for ourselves, but for others around us? Mahatma Ghandi said: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Good advice, don’t you think? Picture of Ghandi by Pixabay