Death and Life

If Death and Life were part of a whole, then what are the chances of a person being alive?

Let's consider the possibilities:
There are one way, two ways, three ways, actually countless ways that a person can die i.e. ways to die = ∞
There is one way, hmmmm only one way a person can live that is to live (NB: ways to be alive and how you lead your life is different) i.e. ways to live = 1
Hence, chances of life = 1/(∞ + 1) = near zero!!!

Do you realise what this means? It means that mathematically speaking, the pure fact that each and every one of us being alive is a miracle on its own!!!

Yet how many of us really cherish life to be that precious and miraculous? I used to joke with my Secondary school friends, sometimes I wish that I would be diagnosed with a terminal illness that leaves me with little time in this world and then at the last minute miraculously recover so that I know how to live "properly" and not take so many things for granted.

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

- Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie"