Janet here. Parables and fables have so much to offer us. I love it when there is a completely different take on a given story. The whole concept of being chosen has always been problematic for me. The way you brought in another perspective… well done.
I don’t know how many eggs a woman is blessed with for her fertility period but once a month for say 50 years and it ads up to make the odds of our birth remote even without birth control and abortion.
I don’t know how an acorn is created but suspect there is a cross of genes meaning a lot of want to be acorns never become acorns just like only a few, if any, of a woman’s eggs become fetuses and humans.
But the real remote odds are in the male sperm. Supposedly millions run the gamut up to the occasional egg clinging precariously on the uterus wall but out of millions there is only one first and it closes the door to the millions behind it.
Like the rare acorn that becomes a tree, we are all extremely rare winners.
It means we are all exceptional and need to make the best of being exceptional winners.
Janet here. Parables and fables have so much to offer us. I love it when there is a completely different take on a given story. The whole concept of being chosen has always been problematic for me. The way you brought in another perspective… well done.
Good parable and it fits us all.
I don’t know how many eggs a woman is blessed with for her fertility period but once a month for say 50 years and it ads up to make the odds of our birth remote even without birth control and abortion.
I don’t know how an acorn is created but suspect there is a cross of genes meaning a lot of want to be acorns never become acorns just like only a few, if any, of a woman’s eggs become fetuses and humans.
But the real remote odds are in the male sperm. Supposedly millions run the gamut up to the occasional egg clinging precariously on the uterus wall but out of millions there is only one first and it closes the door to the millions behind it.
Like the rare acorn that becomes a tree, we are all extremely rare winners.
It means we are all exceptional and need to make the best of being exceptional winners.