Welcome to the New Year!

Here is a thought to begin the new year. A lot of things that seem purposeful to us are the result of chance. Here is a line from a 1998 short story, Red Underwear, by Charles W. Harvey. I don’t remember what the story was about, but here is the quote:

“I’m a great believer in default. We are alive by default. We are the eggs that didn’t die and wash out in our mothers’ blood. We are the ones who survived the pill or leaked out of a busted condom. And even if our parents planned us, we weren’t the ones they wanted. We were what they got.”