Beneficiaries of Chance

This beautiful love letter written by Carl Sagan's widow serves as inspiration for how the most significant relationships in life should be treated - a chance meeting in the infinite cosmos that is a miracle to cherish every day

Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time.

I remember watching Carl Sagan's show on TV as a kid growing up in India. He made the universe seem like something the regular person could approach without being completely intimidated. The spiral galaxy had come to our living room. Kids like me around the world could immerse in the magic and the mystery that they knew nothing about until then. 

While the details from those shows have long faded from memory, I remember Sagan as this incredibly generous person that was giving us all this chance to explore the universe with him. He was opening us up to the possibilities, daring us to venture into what is deeply mysterious and inaccessible; enriching our lives in ways we did not even know was possible.