It all started with a bang
The Big Bang to be precise
From an infinite singularity, all of existence exploded into being
For why and for what is anyone’s guess
But from that moment, every particle, every atom that creates the world we know, shot out in every direction imaginable
Each off to their “forever” yet entangled (at least for a time) with one another by their birth
Particles moving, colliding, interacting — seemingly random — caught in a stochastic waltz.
But there were rules to this dance.
Order in entropy.
Rules that made some interactions more likely to occur and others damn near impossible.
Rules that can be boiled down to one simple idea: save your energy, don’t work too hard
And with this commandment, matter settled into spheres, creating the stars, the planets, the moons (don’t tell me about asteroids)
Not out of ambition, but because the rules of the universe saw it energetically favorable to do so
When I look up at the night sky, I can’t help but admire this lazy intentionality that created the cosmos.
I then think about the matter that makes up my own body.
Which somehow organized itself into cells, each containing a microcosm whose complex processes seem far removed from that original directive
But the rules never changed
So each replication of my DNA, each translation of a protein, each impulse sent down every nerve, across every synapse
Every movement, every thought, every feeling,
is just particles arranging themselves at random, but in accordance with the laws of that same lazy universe.
Out of all that motion, all that statistical noise, and infinite “forevers”
The universe found it favorable to bring us here
To this moment
To you and me
nANIMOv 