Astonished by Existence

Life did not always feel amazing to me. Put simply, I thought existence a curse and the living a disease.  The Orthodox Christian Church, its writers, brought back to me the wonder of life.

Aeon's You’re astonishing! comes from a different place to the same conclusion:

So should we conclude from these reflections that we all ought to go around dizzily celebrating and exclaiming: ‘Wow! Just wow! Here I am! It’s incredible to be alive!’? Well, perhaps not during the calculus exam, or in the middle of the budget committee meeting. And, of course, one should be careful not to choke on one’s oatmeal. But if the argument offered here is right, it is incredible, from your perspective, that you are alive. You should feel amazed that everything came together in the way that it did. To never reflect on the implications, astonishing from one’s own subjective perspective, of the improbabilities of one’s existence is, it seems to me, not to appreciate one’s life as fully as one could.

Now to do something useful with that life.

sch 7/26/22