Have you ever pondered the odds of your being born a human being? The top of the food chain? On planet Earth? Let’s look at some numbers.
If you go back 40 generations, starting with you, then your parents, then grandparents, great grandparents, and so on, how many people would you guess had to be involved? In 40 generations? Hundreds? Thousands? Try more than 2 trillion. That’s trillion with a “t.” Let’s not even get into the odds of all of those people meeting and having a productive roll in the hay together, nor consider going back another 40 generations, lest our heads explode.
There’s a Buddhist story that if you threw a lifesaver randomly into any of the oceans on the planet (around 140 million square miles of them), and if there was only one turtle in all of the oceans, the odds of you being born would be akin to the turtle surfacing for the first time and poking it’s head through the lifesaver. Which is to say, almost no chance at all.
And what about death? Have you ever considered the chances of dying? Let me grab my calculator… Oh, wait, I don’t need it. Chances of dying: 100%. Guaranteed.
Do you know how precious and fleeting your life is? You were born, against all the odds, not a flee, nor a rat, nor plankton, but the highest of all life forms: a human being.
After the absolute miracle of your being born, how crazy is it to poison yourself and ruin your life with alcohol? I’ll tell you how crazy: 100%.
Wake up! Now is the time! Do something with your mindbogglingly precious life! The past is the past — forget it. The rest of your life begins right now, in this very moment. Do you want to make something of it? Or just continue as you have been? Drinking, unhappy, unhealthy? You know the answer.
This is your shot. Your life. Once you’re gone, you’re gone. You will never have this chance again. Ever.
KTB
Kick the Booze 
Powerful thoughts. Thank you.
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