Good Thing, too

Life began as microbes. You can look that up in science books if you don’t believe me. Then as microbes began to eat each other a race began to make larger bodies. They tried to devour each other. So the molecules grew larger to escape destruction from other such molecules. The mechanism to do that was already in place. The trouble was that all the energy to grow required more oxygen and just where was that extra oxygen supposed to come from? Well good things come to those who wait and so it did. Life came up out of the water as plants and lo and behold in their growth, what did they release but oxygen! So there was the energy to make molecules bigger and more complicated and so it went. Billions and billions of years later here we are – a collection of molecules that tops all collections. Complex animals that imagine and invent, build and destroy, dream and fly past every known body in the galaxy. Do we have such a thing as humility? No of course not. We simply keep going on.
Naomi Sherer