Thanks

Life owes me nothing. Quite the opposite, I owe life EVERYTHING!!!  Each new day that comes my direction is a gift from above, a present bestowed upon me that could have just as easily gone to a potential being far less fortunate.  ONE egg cell from my mother conjoined with ONE sperm cell from my father to form ME.  I am just the extraordinarily lucky beneficiary of that chance union; if the presence or timing of either had been microscopically different, someone else would have been created at that instant and not me.  I am therefore eternally grateful for a stroke of fortune that I can take no credit for and which I can never repay; all I can do is celebrate life every day like it is my last one, all while giving heartfelt thanks for the pluperfect gift of consciousness.