All of us keep waiting for one big miracle to change our lives.

We pray, hope and wish desperately for it.

Are you one of those people?

Consider some facts…

1. The chances of intelligent life being formed is so low in the universe that one scientist calculated it to be “less than 0.01 per cent over four billion years”.

There are billions and billions of stars in this universe. What are the chances that we have landed up here on this perfect planet next to this perfect sun?

2. If you look at the history of the world, then it has been plagued with global wars, epidemics, famine and the like. The last major catastrophic event for the whole world was of course World War Two.

It is estimated that 70 million people died. (The population of the world was under 3 billion)

You do the math on how many were injured, displaced and scarred for life. Two nuclear bombs were also used, which affected hundreds of thousands for decades.

Imagine the fear of the nuclear holocaust in the 1940s and 1950s!

While there have been many localized conflicts, nothing like WW2 has happened for 66 years. Most of us were born after that event.

We are extremely lucky in that aspect, much luckier than the billions who lived directly under the spectre of death and destruction before us.

3. We are lucky to live in the Internet Age. But not everybody in the world has access to a computer. Depending on which statistics you quote, about two-thirds of the world’s population has either never seen a computer or has no access to the Internet on a regular basis.

You are automatically in the top one-third of the human population.

So the chances of anybody like me writing such a blog in the peace of my home or anybody like you reading it in the universe is probably a miraculous one in a zillion!

And you and I are still waiting for a miracle!

© Sunil Rajguru