The world's human population is about 7.6 billion. Which is 760 crores. Which is 7600000000 people! Which is estimated to become 9000000000 in a few years. And in general, our ideas of happiness largely stem from success as defined by our economic structure. Our planet though remains the same size: a constant; and its resources are a diminishing variable.
Now, within this, every human interaction has multiple factors influencing it; possibly in thousands or hundreds of thousands if one gets down to the molecular or atomic level. Let's for simplicity sake bring it down to just ten factors.
That makes it around 45000000000 possible turns things could take for each of every person's action. Even one of the factors between two people can range from either of them going on to become either the ruler of the world to an isolated being of suffering. The result, whatever it is, further influences what can happen to others connected. In a way, it is a newly generated factor that further needs to be considered. But for simplicity sake (or for my poor mathematical prowess' sake), let's skip this factor completely out of the equation.
Then there's nature; which has countless aspects and species, and countless interactions within themselves and with us, which can and has a direct or an indirect impact on the course our lives can take.
So let's bring down this, for simplicity sake, from countless to merely 100.
So for 45000000000 possibilities of turns, in a climate of 100 more factors, the possibilities become 4500000000000.
Let's add a couple of more zeroes, and round it off to 5000000000000, considering we've reduced something probably in thousands and hundreds of thousands down to tens and hundreds (And also because I think I have just multiplied instead of making it 'to the power of') And even though I suck at probability, I'm pretty certain my miscalculations still remain on the lesser side of what it could actually be, and also because we have considered only planet Earth and not considered the factors in this infinite universe.
Now, we're still alive every minute, every day, when the odds are 1 in a 5000000000000. That itself beats probability. It is in a way a fucking miracle that we're still alive!
Everything defies probability because Life Intelligence probably negates it.
But in the context of what makes us happy, the odds are still the same.
We have 1 in a 5000000000000 shot at success.
We have 1 in a 5000000000000 chance of not getting cancer.
We have 1 in a 5000000000000 chance of hitting a lottery.
We probably have a 1 in a 5000000000000 shot at pretty much everything.
And if for happiness, one depends on things like what we are largely seeking, Happiness is next to Impossible!
Chasing happiness in our current definition or designation of it, is a futile effort. One will and never can be consistently happy.
Yet we can beat the odds in two ways.
By not caring about being happy.
Or by just simply being happy.
And that's the ironic miracle of life. The odds are infinitely against us. And we can beat it just by willing to do so.
(Don't ask me how though. Even I'm trying to figure. But I'm sure, even if I do figure, it won't be something you can read and understand.)
