EVOLUTION

From an evolutionary standpoint, except insofar as we are eggs and sperm, we do not exist.
Who we are as persons, what we have managed to achieve by growing up and working hard,
why we think we are who we are, none of this matters to evolution.
It's all about procreation.
Once we, as men, have passed our sperm on to the eggs of women, we cease to matter
in the great evolutionary scheme.
Whether we live beyond that moment is irrelevant.
Anything that we make of ourselves after that point is completely outside the purview of evolution,
the invisible, though no less iron-like, hand of evolution.
We can be especially proud of that.
We might as well invent a new kind of person, one that Nature would never have created on its own.
The Universe is immense.
Our dreams must measure up to that immensity.