Ever have one of those days when everything just, well, sucks? It all starts when the alarm is set at the right hour, but PM instead of AM. So jumping out of bed you stub your toe on the way to make the morning coffee. At least you can have a cup to go. Yep! It’ll be to go all right, no more filters. Crap!
And it doesn’t get any better from here on out. Until….you run into the person that’s way too damn perky, ought to be shot for being that freaking happy, dickweed. This guy was singing the praises of living in a perfect world like a Southern Baptist minister at a revival. Sitting there all happier than thou, with his steaming hot cup of coffee from Dunkin Donuts, and matching socks! Bloody jerk! Hey, it was dark, my toe hurt like hell and I thought they were…ah never mind.
Anyway, I figured my best course of action was to ask him “why it’s so perfect”. Then when the droning starts, I’ll just tune him out like I do the wife when she starts blah blah blah………”Yes dear”…..”No dear”…………
OH! Don’t sit there and act like YOU never do that! Unless your significant other is reading this too.
So I ask him, just what makes you think this is such a perfect world? Look at all the wars, starvation, disease, crime and failing governments. Figured that would keep him going for the rest of the commute. It did! But the first words out of his mouth opened my ears right back up.
He said, “Everything is just as it should be. Perfect!”
What the!!!! Huston we have a nut case in 6B!
Okay…two choices here. #1 knock him out, take his coffee and a black sock. or #2 let him explain. Went with #2, to many witnesses for #1, plus I think he put sugar in the coffee.
Wait just a minute…..how can the world be perfect with all the violence, hate, death and destruction going on? The world isn’t even remotely close to being perfect.
But it is. If the world and the Universe were not in a perfect state, then you and I would not be here having this conversation. Everything as we know it would not exist.
Yep! Option #1! No no…sugar in the coffee….feet to small….
What does the Universe have to do with…..well….What are you talking about??
It’s really quite simple yet can be very hard to understand. So allow me to start with the present and work backwards.
The odds of you being born are infinitesimally small. If, for instance, on the day your parents met. Had your mother stopped to pick up a penny, or your father to tie his shoe, they would have not been in the perfect place at the perfect time and would have never met. And you..
Wouldn’t have been born. I get that. Do you put sugar in your coffee?
No I don’t.
Now, lets expand on that just a little more.
We all have two parents, our parents have two parents and so on to the beginning of the human race. Now suppose a million years ago one of our ancestors was out hunting. A second before he was ready to make the kill a small breeze made a dead branch fall from a tree to his right, startling the prey making it take flight to his left. Being a good hunter, he instantly chases after it. But being focused on the prey he does not see the female (his future mate) and they collide.
And they live happily ever after. Right?
Correct. But you’re missing the moral of the story my friend.
A friend would share his coffee. Just saying…
ahh! You are running on caffeine empty! Here, you can have this one as it is my second cup.
eeeeeaaaaaayyyyy!!! Coffee coffee coffee! You is me Hero!
Sorry! I’m okay…. now what was the moral of the story? and no sugar! sorry!
The moral is, if the wind had not blown at the perfect time and direction the limb wouldn’t have fell in the perfect place and made the perfect noise at the perfect time to make the prey bolt in the perfect direction. And our ancestors would not have ever met.
Which means they wouldn’t have had the offspring that discovered fire which had offspring who discovered…..Oh Boy! And all from just from the wind blowing a branch out of a tree!
No.
What? But if the wind hadn’t blown that limb down at the perfect time……Okay! What did I miss?
The beginning.
I believe you are starting to understand why the odds of you and I even having this conversation are so small. But to fully understand we must end at the beginning. The beginning of time that is.
You see, if the Big Bang had not been of the perfect size or had not happened at the perfect time…..
The Universe would not be like it is now!
The Earth would not have formed, well….perfectly so it could sustain life!
It’s either the coffee or I’m starting to understand. So what you’re saying is, that from the beginning of time, everything, from the smallest atom to the largest planet, has followed a path of perfection in order to be as it is now. And if the slightest deviation from that path would have occurred, nothing would be as it is.
You got!
Thank You my friend! For the coffee and for showing me that we truly do live in a perfect world!
One more thing before you go. You do know that your socks don’t match right?
Yes…. but at least this time, my shoes match! ;)
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