Your Existence is a Miracle! Here’s the Science Behind It

Several times in life, we as humans get thankless over the smallest of shortcomings. While life is indeed challenging, it is still a luxury to just “be”. Here’s how:

Have you ever sat and just wondered how you ended up here, on this planet, in this exact moment? It turns out, the reality that you exist at all is nothing short of a numerical impossibility—and yet, against all odds, here you are, reading this. Science, history, and sheer luck have all played a role in making you one of the rarest occurrences possible in this universe.

Let us start with the numbers game. The chances of your parents meeting, agreeing to marry and conceiving you at the exact moment they did? There’s a word for this in the English language and it is called Infinitesimal. Now go back a “little” further—your grandparents, great-grandparents, and an unbroken chain of ancestors had to survive wars, plagues, famines, and disasters just for you to exist. Any smallest of change in history, and you would never have been born. One single decision, one little mishap, one small mistake and that would have changed the entire family chain and you would never have existed as you do.

According to scientists, the probability of you existing in your current form is around 1 in 10^2,685,000—a number so grand that it is practically zero.


Around 25 crores (250 million) sperm are released in one single ejaculation, but only one manages to fertilize the egg. In other words, about 25 Crore people did not take birth because you did. Wild. Isn’t it?

Your existence did not come into power merely a few years ago and your story simply does not start with your parents and the accident of them meeting. It in fact began billions of years ago when the first ever living cell appeared on this planet Earth. That microscopic organism survived against all odds, evolving into complex life, leading to millions of generations of creatures that eventually became human. Each one of your ancestors had to survive, find a mate, and pass on their genes—without fail.

If even one of them had made a different choice, if a single ancestor had been lost to history, the unique combination of DNA that makes you wouldn’t exist.

Even when your parents conceived you, the odds were still stacked against you. A single sperm out of hundreds of millions had to fertilize a specific egg at an exact moment to create your one-of-a-kind genetic makeup. If anything had been slightly different, someone else—who would not be you—would have been born in your place.

This means you are the only version of yourself that could have ever existed. Your thoughts, your emotions, your consciousness, and a mere accident of being able to watch this mysterious film called life from the point of view and perspective of a human—all of it is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime event in the universe. Always reflect on this the next time someone compares you with someone else.

The next time you feel significant or arrogant about yourself or your worldly possessions, remember this: you weren’t even supposed to be here—but you are and this was a pure accident. You are the result of impossible odds, countless generations, and the perfect mix of chaos and unbelievable luck.


Despite of all of these slightest of margins which have led to you being born, you’re still just 1 on a planet of 8 billion (800 Crores). While you’re special indeed—it’s always healthier to consider yourself as irrelevant whenever you feel too self centred or egoistic about yourself—keeps you grounded and close to the ultimate reality.

As much as you shouldn’t take your existence lightly, you should not take it very seriously either. You are a miraculous product, and you are very very lucky to be able to witness feelings, laughter, or even the darkest of sorrows.

The very moment when you realise that this is all an unearned event, a chance that happened by accident to you—your mind will itself shift the focus towards the smallest of blisses and joys in life. As Osho once rightly said, “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”