| What? They still haven't told me what the hell I'm sposed to do for community service. Whatever, not like I really care, I just wanna get this outta the way. It's currently 11:25 and I have some homework due at 8 am that I still need to do. If I were a normal college kid, this would be fine. But my body requires its daily 8 hours of sleepy time. So I'm sad. I read recently that the stuff of life is pretty pedestrian. You know, some carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, some calcium, bit of sulfur, and some bits of other elements. Cheap stuff you can get on a "child's allowance", to quote Alphonse Elric. With that in mind, we consider all the events that happened beforehand to lead to my, or your, very existence. First off, we have the big bang, an absurdly brief moment in history when all the matter that was necessary to create everything was, well, created. And then the molecules slowly formed together to make stars, which underwent reactions to create all the different elements in the universe. Then, our solar system had to form, slowly, bit by bit, little pieces of molten rock coming together to form planet after planet. Now, keep in mind that, at this time, all the universal constants of physics have already been, miraculously, perfect for supporting life, along with the fact that in our solar system, the earth had formed the perfect distance from our new sun to also be suitable for life. If any of these constants had been tweaked in the smallest way, or if the earth had been a few meters off, well, life wouldn't have formed. Now that everything is in place, some toxic puddles on this humble planet were lucky enough to contain a few packets of chemicals and molecules, which began to tweak, and move of their own accord. The beginning of life. These molecules began to take in their environment, add bits to themselves, and change. And so began the process of evolution, either by random changes, if you so believe, or ordained by a higher power. As the process continues, new life forms are constantly showing up, and disappearing, on this suitable-for-life, yet hostile, planet. Now, one lineage begins to evolve higher thought processes, thoughts that can comprehend beyond what they can just see, hear, smell, or taste. This lineage will become us, the humans. So the humans are formed. Now, each human passes on his or her DNA, to form more and more combinations of human DNA, and thus, new humans. Each sequence of DNA can only make one person, and so only one possible scenario can make you: each of your ancestors had to have mated in the exact manner which they had in order to create, out of some cheap scraps of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, sulfur, and other elements, you. This amazing sequence of events served to create me, and the purpose that I currently serve now is none other than to be very sad at the prospect at having to wake up at 7 am tomorrow. |