The Chances of You Being Born

Why do people associate odds and chances with good fortune, goals, dreams, and pursuits? For some reason they like to state how unlikely accomplishing such is (Which is a whole other rant of mine).

Do you know how hard it is to be drafted to the NFL? Do you know how hard it is to become a Rockstar?

DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO BE BORN?!?!?!

Lets think about this...

All of the things that come in to factor with you coming into this world:
You were conceived by your parents. Each of your parents were conceived by their parents, being your grandparents. All four of your grandparents were conceived by their parents. This can be divided all the way throughout the history of human kind. So for you to be born, all of these ancestors had to meet each other at exactly the right time, at exactly the right place. Already the odds of you being born are astronomical.

Now lets throw in.... sex. How many times does a couple have sex before a child is born? Sometimes one, sometimes many. What if you were a middle child? Now lets introduce sperm into this. There are millions of sperm in semen. Only one of those sperm penetrates the female egg. That sperm was you.

You were the one sperm to beat out the million some other sperm to penetrate the egg during that one single occurrence that your mother was successfully impregnated (Not try to stir any visuals here! Just bare with me!). Now throw in masturbation. Every time your father, his father, his father, and his father did the business, that decreased the chances of you being born to the almost infinite power!

What about geography? The world is huge. History is even larger. Customs? Was your great grandmother only allowed to wed a fellow Italian from a neighboring family in Italy? Someone could have chosen a different college, gone to a different bar, stayed in that night, instead of meeting your other parent.
It goes forever!

That my friends is overcoming the greatest odds one could ever imagine.

P.S. If anyone can actually come up with a realistic figure for these odds, I will personally give you $50 and a Free copy of my new album.