The Story of Universe & You
There were 5.7 billion people on the planet when I was born. At present, there are over 7 billion inhabitants. Our planet weights precisely 5.972*10^24kg and has a surface area of over 510 million square miles. In that vast space, 195 countries dot from the eastern tip of Caroline Island to the westernmost point of Attu islands. The world is a mammoth, old, cramped quarters, that much we know for certain.
Yet, you ended up where you are at present, you ended up with the family that you were born into. At first glance, this fact might seem trivial, but if you think about it, it was all a chance, a sort of miracle. Of all the people on Earth, what are the chances that two people would fumble into each other at the right moment in their lives in the exact same place and would later blend into each other and embark on the process that would eventually create you?
Go back a little further.
Imagine the sheer number of circumstances and experiences, the sheer number of trials and tribulations that materialized in your parent’s lives: their birth, childhood, upbringing, culture, values, education, work, family, successes, and failures, all factors that cooperatively led to your mother meeting your father and eventually birthing you.
Probe a little further. There are over 1 billion sperm cells in a single ejaculation. A healthy women carrier about 1 million eggs in her body throughout her life. Now reflect on the fact that how small the odds are that one particular sperm from one specific man at one right moment happened to fertilize just the right eggs of one specific woman, the process happened so precise as to eventually create you. Imagine how microscopic the chances are that your parent’s parents, and their ancestors, and their parent’s parents all met and had children of their own. Every one of our forefathers had somehow attracted their partners and were in good health to give birth to their offspring who in turn grew out to be healthy adults and eventually found themselves prospective mates to procreate and the cycle goes on. Given the wild landscape in which our ancestors inhabited, imagine for a moment, if even one of our forefathers had been smitten by a noxious snake, plundered to death by a tiger, devoured by a black Rhino, squashed by a deranged elephant, slipped and fell over a cliff or drowned under waters during fishing or starved to death; imagine if even one of our forefathers were to deflect from their quest and missed the chance to meet the right partner at the right place at the right moment in order to prolong the only plausible amalgamation of inherited traits and genes that would eventually, result in the coming into existence of you.
Go back even further, to the beginning of the Universe.
Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy that we know of concentrated in a region smaller than a dime and began to expand and cool at an extremely swift pace. Scientists concede this phenomenon as the Big Bang. Innumerable particles were unleashed as the temperature gradually trickled down to 100 million times that of the sun’s core and progressively the elements of nature assumed their present properties. Throughout all this time, these particular particles twisted and twirled to a particular tune and networked with each other through quantum properties about which scientists still grapple to understand even today. Now imagine the number of collisions that transpired between all the dancing particles in the universe; think about the ebb and flow of all the forces that propelled every single subatomic particle to bang with each other. Perceiving it from a macro perspective, these tiny particles and energy quantum have paved the way for an abundance of learning, knowledge, and invention. Billions of years after the big bang, people developed the ability to think, learn, cultivate, and invent. Throughout these years, several wars have been waged, untold nations conquered and plundered, virulent plagues and treacherous pandemics swirled the world at all points in history leaving in its wake millions of living species dead. This veritable tapestry of human enlightenment and achievement has been woven together only because of the interactions of immeasurable tiny particles, energy quantum, and bundles of forces 13.8 billion years ago. As such, the Big Bang is an eccentric crescendo and the dangling of particles at the beginning of time remains the most amazing symphony ever occurred, culminating in a singular event so that here I would write this literature and there you are reading it. What are the odds?
From the point of Big Bang, throughout the age of exploration by the first humans, to the age of food production, to the formation of ancient civilizations, to the Middle Ages, to the age of colonial exploration, later the enlightenment, the renaissance, the industrial revolution and all the way to the contemporary age, it's as if all of human history is leading up to the moment you were born. It’s as if every particle, every rhythm, every act, every idea, every word, every decision, and every experience played a crucial part in your conception.
Was it a chance? A Miracle? A part of God’s plan? A cosmic accident? A colossal mistake? A dream perhaps?
It’s not important. My point is, you are an impeccable marvel. In all your imperfections, there is a resonance of immaculate perfection.
Your mind, the way you think; your heart, the way it beats; your eyes, the way you see; your voice, the way you speak; your sense, the way you laugh; your spirits, the way you explore; your moods, the way you love. You are as idiosyncratic as inconceivable.
And yet, you bend your knee to this enigma called life. You drown yourself in the sea of melancholy. You become petrified by the world’s treachery, atrocities, and lies. You let yourself succumb to the phantoms of materialism. You feel like everyone is bolting towards the peak whilst you are stuck in a perpetual cycle of misery- static and frivolous. You feel like you are a cosmic failure whilst others dangle in triumph, wealth, and fame. You feel like you are not alive, yet living. You feel paralyzed, yet breathing. You convince yourself that you are not smart enough, not attractive enough, not fortunate enough, not strong enough. You feel you are worthless.
Given the complexities of life, it is easy to feel trivial in such a large world. Amidst so much movement and uninterrupted running, it is easy to feel unimportant. Amidst the chaos and the pursuit for triumph, fortune, and fame, it is easy to overlook who you are and how you came into being.
I see you. I write this to remind you who you are, to remind you how you come into existence, to remind you that you are both a mystery and a miracle.
You think of yourself as a failure because there are so many success stories around you that you want to emulate. You think you are ordinary because there are so many extraordinary beings. You blinded yourself by seeing all the extraordinary stories occurring around you that you lost sight of your own unique charisma. If only you could look yourself through my eyes; if only you could feel what I feel about you…
I see you. From where I stand, I see an incredible person. I see how inconceivable you are. I have never seen anything so eccentric, so mystifying.
I know life isn’t easy; surviving in itself is an arduous task. There are innumerable times when the odds are heaped up against you. But you will be okay. And how do I know that? Your existence! You coming into being has defied all logic, science, and all other natural phenomena.
The next time you feel like you are a failure remember how much work and time it had taken for you to come into existence. The next time you feel like you are ordinary, understand that there never will be anyone else like you. The next time you feel dead on the inside, remember that it had taken 13.8 billion years of evolution to bring you into existence!
You sir, and madam, my brethren, and kinfolk, are a product of immeasurable probabilities and unfathomable riddles.
You are a miracle.
A strange, but unique enigma.
You are the universe and the universe is you.
There’s nothing more perfect, nothing more impeccable than you.
Don’t be remorseful, Rejoice, for the day is young and you have miles to go before you sleep!!
- Surya Sree
Yet, you ended up where you are at present, you ended up with the family that you were born into. At first glance, this fact might seem trivial, but if you think about it, it was all a chance, a sort of miracle. Of all the people on Earth, what are the chances that two people would fumble into each other at the right moment in their lives in the exact same place and would later blend into each other and embark on the process that would eventually create you?
Go back a little further.
Imagine the sheer number of circumstances and experiences, the sheer number of trials and tribulations that materialized in your parent’s lives: their birth, childhood, upbringing, culture, values, education, work, family, successes, and failures, all factors that cooperatively led to your mother meeting your father and eventually birthing you.
Probe a little further. There are over 1 billion sperm cells in a single ejaculation. A healthy women carrier about 1 million eggs in her body throughout her life. Now reflect on the fact that how small the odds are that one particular sperm from one specific man at one right moment happened to fertilize just the right eggs of one specific woman, the process happened so precise as to eventually create you. Imagine how microscopic the chances are that your parent’s parents, and their ancestors, and their parent’s parents all met and had children of their own. Every one of our forefathers had somehow attracted their partners and were in good health to give birth to their offspring who in turn grew out to be healthy adults and eventually found themselves prospective mates to procreate and the cycle goes on. Given the wild landscape in which our ancestors inhabited, imagine for a moment, if even one of our forefathers had been smitten by a noxious snake, plundered to death by a tiger, devoured by a black Rhino, squashed by a deranged elephant, slipped and fell over a cliff or drowned under waters during fishing or starved to death; imagine if even one of our forefathers were to deflect from their quest and missed the chance to meet the right partner at the right place at the right moment in order to prolong the only plausible amalgamation of inherited traits and genes that would eventually, result in the coming into existence of you.
Go back even further, to the beginning of the Universe.
Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy that we know of concentrated in a region smaller than a dime and began to expand and cool at an extremely swift pace. Scientists concede this phenomenon as the Big Bang. Innumerable particles were unleashed as the temperature gradually trickled down to 100 million times that of the sun’s core and progressively the elements of nature assumed their present properties. Throughout all this time, these particular particles twisted and twirled to a particular tune and networked with each other through quantum properties about which scientists still grapple to understand even today. Now imagine the number of collisions that transpired between all the dancing particles in the universe; think about the ebb and flow of all the forces that propelled every single subatomic particle to bang with each other. Perceiving it from a macro perspective, these tiny particles and energy quantum have paved the way for an abundance of learning, knowledge, and invention. Billions of years after the big bang, people developed the ability to think, learn, cultivate, and invent. Throughout these years, several wars have been waged, untold nations conquered and plundered, virulent plagues and treacherous pandemics swirled the world at all points in history leaving in its wake millions of living species dead. This veritable tapestry of human enlightenment and achievement has been woven together only because of the interactions of immeasurable tiny particles, energy quantum, and bundles of forces 13.8 billion years ago. As such, the Big Bang is an eccentric crescendo and the dangling of particles at the beginning of time remains the most amazing symphony ever occurred, culminating in a singular event so that here I would write this literature and there you are reading it. What are the odds?
From the point of Big Bang, throughout the age of exploration by the first humans, to the age of food production, to the formation of ancient civilizations, to the Middle Ages, to the age of colonial exploration, later the enlightenment, the renaissance, the industrial revolution and all the way to the contemporary age, it's as if all of human history is leading up to the moment you were born. It’s as if every particle, every rhythm, every act, every idea, every word, every decision, and every experience played a crucial part in your conception.
Was it a chance? A Miracle? A part of God’s plan? A cosmic accident? A colossal mistake? A dream perhaps?
It’s not important. My point is, you are an impeccable marvel. In all your imperfections, there is a resonance of immaculate perfection.
Your mind, the way you think; your heart, the way it beats; your eyes, the way you see; your voice, the way you speak; your sense, the way you laugh; your spirits, the way you explore; your moods, the way you love. You are as idiosyncratic as inconceivable.
And yet, you bend your knee to this enigma called life. You drown yourself in the sea of melancholy. You become petrified by the world’s treachery, atrocities, and lies. You let yourself succumb to the phantoms of materialism. You feel like everyone is bolting towards the peak whilst you are stuck in a perpetual cycle of misery- static and frivolous. You feel like you are a cosmic failure whilst others dangle in triumph, wealth, and fame. You feel like you are not alive, yet living. You feel paralyzed, yet breathing. You convince yourself that you are not smart enough, not attractive enough, not fortunate enough, not strong enough. You feel you are worthless.
Given the complexities of life, it is easy to feel trivial in such a large world. Amidst so much movement and uninterrupted running, it is easy to feel unimportant. Amidst the chaos and the pursuit for triumph, fortune, and fame, it is easy to overlook who you are and how you came into being.
I see you. I write this to remind you who you are, to remind you how you come into existence, to remind you that you are both a mystery and a miracle.
You think of yourself as a failure because there are so many success stories around you that you want to emulate. You think you are ordinary because there are so many extraordinary beings. You blinded yourself by seeing all the extraordinary stories occurring around you that you lost sight of your own unique charisma. If only you could look yourself through my eyes; if only you could feel what I feel about you…
I see you. From where I stand, I see an incredible person. I see how inconceivable you are. I have never seen anything so eccentric, so mystifying.
I know life isn’t easy; surviving in itself is an arduous task. There are innumerable times when the odds are heaped up against you. But you will be okay. And how do I know that? Your existence! You coming into being has defied all logic, science, and all other natural phenomena.
The next time you feel like you are a failure remember how much work and time it had taken for you to come into existence. The next time you feel like you are ordinary, understand that there never will be anyone else like you. The next time you feel dead on the inside, remember that it had taken 13.8 billion years of evolution to bring you into existence!
You sir, and madam, my brethren, and kinfolk, are a product of immeasurable probabilities and unfathomable riddles.
You are a miracle.
A strange, but unique enigma.
You are the universe and the universe is you.
There’s nothing more perfect, nothing more impeccable than you.
Don’t be remorseful, Rejoice, for the day is young and you have miles to go before you sleep!!
- Surya Sree
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