The odds that your mom simply met your dad have been calculated at about 1 in 20,000. That they stayed together long enough to have you: 1 in 2,000. Your immediate existence, then, just from one generation, is now at 1 in 40,000,000. By comparison, the odds of you being hit by lightning are 1 in 500,000. the probability of you being here… right now, reading this is 1 in 10^2,685,000. For those of you unfamiliar with scientific notation, that second number is a 10 followed by almost 2.7 million zeros. you are here for a reason….
