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Your odds of being the 0.00001% are very low, but someone has to be it. He's just saying recognize that. Recognize that all your hopes, dreams, fears, assumptio
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
Your odds of being the 0.00001% are very low, but someone has to be it. He's just saying recognize that. Recognize that all your hopes, dreams, fears, assumptions, etc. can literally be gone in an instant and live accordingly.
I know it sounds ridiculously cliched, and of course you never think it will happen to you, but let me assure you that life really can be taken from you at any time, so live it with that reality in mind.
- setr 9y agoRight; the problem being with a rate that low is that there really isn't much to do about it, unless you pretend its much more likely than it actually is. Living accordingly, given all other potential for error in your life that actually is likely to occur, is really to change nothing at all.
- copperx 9y agoAbout 1 in 3 persons develop cancer in their lives. I don't know where you get the 0.000001 from.
- mathgeek 9y agoPick a different small number then. The point really isn't the specific number, but rather that someone ends up being "that one person who lost the genetic lottery" or "chose their lifestyle poorly" or "happened to live next to the toxic fountain factory" or however you prefer to phrase it when someone gets a terminal disease at 35 or younger.
- Shaanie 9y agoThat way of thinking is short-sighted and (in my opinion) stupid, though. If you plan around dying at any moment, then you'll never reap the rewards of planning for the future. Unless you mean "enjoy your life while it lasts" which is really cliché and pretty pointless advice.