Dear Reader:

Have you ever stopped and really looked at a dear friend… perhaps a lifelong friend, or a spouse and uttered the words in the title caption above?

Truly… what are the odds of two people, not only existing in the same time-frame, but the same galaxy, planet, continent, country, state, town, and community or neighborhood… perhaps the same workplace?

The odds are so infinitesimally small that in my brain when I googled this question… strange-looking number formats puzzled me even more. It didn’t even attempt comparing two people but responded to… the question ” What are the odds of a human existing ? ”

As numbers display in infographic figures …( extreme numbers beyond your wildest imagination) one understandable conclusion reveals itself ” You are totally Improbable!”

It reminds me of the line spoken humorously numerous times by Captain Jack Sparrow ( Pirates of the Caribbean) whenever rivals thought him dead… he kept reappearing. They would stare at him in disbelief and shake their heads shouting ” IMPOSSIBLE ! ” Always his response would be ” No… IMPROBABLE but never IMPOSSIBLE!”

If it were Impossible for humans to exist… obviously we wouldn’t…. lots of things had to appear on our home planet to provide the necessities for life… that had to have taken place long before we came along… like photosynthesis… relationship between plants and vital oxygen for life.

Miraculously… it all came to pass. And out of the darkness came glorious light … the light of life…from Our Creator.

So until tomorrow… the next time… you look in the mirror …whisper… ” Improbable but NOT impossible …you miracle you.”

” Today is my favorite day” – Winnie the Pooh

In final conclusion, to all these far-reaching theories and ideas … on the vastness of our universe and our place in it… all we really need to be able to feel the human connection to ourselves and all others who share our humanity …is a card like the one I received yesterday from the indubitable Jo Dufford… my mentor and always my friend and supporter.

I can not tell you how very special this card was , is, and will always be to me and the timing was perfect. Isn’t getting a gift from someone on an ordinary day more meaningful than any special day or holiday?

And Jo, teacher and administrator, would have put this piece of advice to good use for her students…

” The difference between try and triumph is a little ” umph!”