Are we fortunate or lucky to live here? A proper answer must consider at least a few factors; a shallow consideration doesn’t seem appropriate. I guess to respond we have to understand what makes living here attractive, and probably the path that got us here. But that’s a complicated conversation, and how do I decide where it ends because the road was paved by a thousand years of history before us.

This is a conversation I’m always tempted to explore, but can never find the motivation to start. It isn’t one that I can suss out. When I prepare by internalizing it, I find too much interdependence of our pathway on the rest of the world and the conversation morphs into one about free will.

If that’s the case, then now what do we do?