The battle is on. No rules. You’re on, A Momma’s View
I’ll now invite That Anxious Mom and Grubbs-n-Critters to the battle…
I was stuck between several pictures. Since there are no rules, I’m using all three of them. The first two I created. The third I took with my trusty cell phone.
Parents be strong with the force
Parents be strong in the games
Inventive spelling… Do you know what word this is?
In case you haven’t heard, the powerball was won last night. The jackpot was 1.6 billion dollars. That’s one billion, six hundred million dollars. $1,600,000,000. I don’t know about you, but I could live pretty comfortably on that. Even without those last three zeros.
Do you know what the odds were of winning? Besides next to nothing, of course. 1 in 292,200,000. That’s nearly 1 in every person in the USA. And there were three reported winners! Florida, California, and Tennessee. I have family in Florida, but I haven’t heard anything, yet.
There are odds even more slim than this though. And it’s been successful for over seven billion people.
Those are some pretty slim odds, if you ask me. But these odds have all been successful for the 7+ billion people on Earth. These are the odds of you. 
Yes. You. And you and you and you and you and you. All of you!
These are the odds of me, too.
It is estimated that 13.8 billion years ago our universe was created. Since that point of singularity, the universe has also been creating you. You are 13.8 billion years in the making.
Then a rocky body developed within the “Goldilocks Zone” of a young star. A sun. Then 3.8 billion years ago, give or take, life started. Then each step of evolution had to lead to human beings. Then you mom and dad had to meet face to face AND go on to have a child. Just the right sperm and egg would have to meet to create you with all your defining characteristics. And that would have had to happen throughout your 50,000 generations of your lineage.
Mathematically the odds of that entire combination is 1 in 10 x 974076. Or for the rest of us, that’s a 1 with nine hundred thousand (900,000) zeros after it. That’s roughly the odds for everything in that bulleted paragraph.
Yet, here we are.
So you probably didn’t win powerball. No need to feel unlucky. The odds of you are FAR greater.
Even greater are the odd of YOU reading MY blog.
Thank you.
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