The sheer diversity of life is astonishing. Yet I find myself less amazed by the existence of human social, cultural, and psychological life than by the strange miracle that any of it holds together at all. Billions of organisms, countless relationships, competing needs, fragile dependencies, endless change—and somehow it persists. Not perfectly, not permanently, but long enough to create the appearance of continuity. The deeper mystery is not that life exists, but that amid such overwhelming complexity it manages, however briefly, to remain coherent.
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Life is not astonishing because it exists. It is astonishing because, against every available opportunity to fall apart, it keeps holding together.
Daedelus Kite 