It's pretty amazing that a few free floating amino acids developed into what we see around us every day.

I'm not sure if you've ever read about the RNA world hypothesis, but you might find it interesting. Just today I was in the radio station, and kind of staring at the leather couch in our office. Somebody asked me what I was looking at and I went off on this soapbox about how incredible it is that I was looking at something that, in the end, is composed of atoms that don't represent the whole in the slightest, in terms of appearance. Then I went off about how everything is composed of atoms that are composed of mostly empty space and how incredible that is.

Sometimes I think, and this is an absolutely insane thought that comes up a lot, but that life could be some sort of a dream. That what we are experiencing, what we feel, our trials and tribulations are in the end some sort of a simulation or a weird state born out of some cosmetic sentience. I first encountered that idea from Final Fantasy X, of all places, but it's something that I think about every so often.

Life is impossible.