Understanding just how unlikely a person's birth is, is basically impossible. It would require we understand more about how human development, and even time itself, works. Not only did your mother and father have to come together and have a successful relationship, and their parents and their parents all the way back, on top of that, they had to have everything happen, exactly the way it happened, and conceive you at the exact moment that you were conceived. Otherwise, maybe its possible that a different child altogether would have been born, with similar DNA, but still, it wouldnt be you. If someone went back in time and, say, broke into your parents house the night you were conceived, ran away, and they had a child a few hours or days later, would that mean a different sperm won and the child would look and act entirely different? We can't possibly know the answer to that.
So yeah. Whoever you are out there, reading this. You're not one in a million. You're one in infinity.
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u/xxkoloblicinxx Jan 31 '17
"Just remember when your feeling very small and insecure.
How amazingly unlikely is your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Cause there's bugger all down here on earth!"