What comes and what goes, so much of it depends on chance, on happenstance. There is no such thing as fate, as destiny, no great cosmic scheme of things. To the universe the human is just one of those things, not central to it in any way, an artefact of the way its natural laws work, like the storms of Jupiter, but much less significant, but only in one ordinary solar system around a typical sun.
There are no gods or any other such beings out there sitting up on the clouds pulling strings and tampering with fates, there is just us. The gods outwore their usefulness a long time ago. Since the days when Galileo first put the telescope to his eye the myths of gods have become superfluous and an embarrassing hindrance... nothing more.
Life is what we make it, and things happen because things just happen. None of us have been selected by some divine hand for great or terrible things. The only gods there were ever were, were in our minds; but if we can create such great things out of just the shapes of shadows and clouds in the skies, then there should be no limit to what else we can do.
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