[innerSpaceman]

Being alive, and with human-level consciousness - is one of the highlights of the universe. Enjoy it, as I usually do with the happiest groove.

Zillions of years for interstellar matter to coalesce into stars, then billions more for the planets they bathe in light and warmth ... heheh, those that are just the right distance, with just the right mass, and just the right orbit for it ... to give birth to life. None of it possible till the millionth generation of billions-year-old stars to give to the universe their manufactured atoms for rock and water and life. Then billions more years of evolution and lifewipeout and more evolution and more wipeout till finally there are creatures with the consciousness to not only appreciate life vs. notlife, but to begin to comprehend that they came from the stars and that there's a universe out there of which they are a very rare and special part.

Anthropocentric as it may be, it thrills my soul to contemplate that we may be the very purpose of the stars, the very pinaccle of the cosmos, the veritable hand of god.

And of all the kajillions of creatures with whom we share this planet, though each one of them possesses an indomitable instinct to survive, very few of them - along with us - have the consciousness to appreciate being alive.


And always remember - there's nothing to have to DO, there's nothing you have to HAVE. Just BE and, if you so desire, be happy.