John Assaraf reflects on his sons' births to explore the biological miracle of human life. He argues each person is unique and inherently worthy, and urges viewers to live as the miracles they are by expressing compassion, love, and empathy.
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May 1995.
Keenan (born ~25 years before the video) and Noah (born ~23 years before the video).
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You are unique, only one of a kind. You're not supposed to be like anybody else. You're not supposed to feel better than or worse than less than anybody else. Equal. Every day today, I want to share with you something about life. And I remember 25 years ago when my first son was born. In May of 1995, I felt this incredible gift that was being given to me. And something weird happened. I went to the bathroom when my wife's water broke, and I showered, and I scrubbed myself, you know, from head to toe with a brush. And the thinking that was going on in my head at the time was, for the last, let's say, nine months or so, this unborn child was in my wife's belly. And whatever was happening, this intelligence and, you know, nature doing its thing, I was about to get this gift. And I remember thinking, and I'm not religious, just so, you know, thinking that God was giving me this gift, right? And this miracle, this just incredible thing called a baby. And I remember feeling extremely emotional. My life was about to change, and it certainly did. I have been so, so, so grateful and blessed and involved every day in the life of my son Keenan, who was born 25 years ago, and my son Noah, who was born 23 years ago. And the purpose of this specific video, I want to just focus for just a moment on life. Have you really ever given some thought to what it took, what it takes to give and sustain life? So if we reverse back, you know, your life for however many years you've been born to the day you were born, and reverse back around 285 days from when your mother and father had sex and the sperm and the egg connected, and the X chromosomes and the Y chromosomes interlocked and multiplied 26 times until you were born. Have you ever considered the billions of years of evolution to make that happen? The perfection that happening? Many years ago, when I wrote one of my books, I likened life happening to a printing press. Imagine if you are standing outside of a printing press, you know, a company or a building that produces books or newspapers. And imagine that in this printing press or this printing business, there's ink, there's paper, there's letters, you know, the little letters that you stamp onto things. There's everything that's needed to make a newspaper or to, you know, to print a book. And imagine that this printing business explodes, and all of a sudden, somehow, by miracle, it all comes together, and then a book lands, you know, on the table right next to you or on the floor right next to you. The Idea of that happening is crazy, right? Well, the miracle that you are is crazy, right? It's just, oh, my God, what an incredible miracle you are. That I am. That we are. And so today, I wanted to just remind you of the intelligence that created you. The intelligence that is within you, that you are. So feeling less than. Feeling like you're not good enough, feeling like you're not smart enough, feeling like you're not worthy enough. Really, you are a miracle of life. You are a miracle of creation. Within you, the hydrogen, the oxygen, the nitrogen, the carbon, and all the other elements, the atoms and the molecules that make you, you is nature's perfection. Yes. With all of our flaws and idiosyncrasies and challenges and things we do great and things we don't. That's the miracle of you. You are unique. Only one of a kind. You're not supposed to be like anybody else. You're not supposed to feel better than or worse than less than anybody else, equal. Every day, every minute, every hour, every month, every year, you are a miracle. Why not act that way? Why not feel the miracle that you are? Why not be expressed? Love, give, share, understand, be compassionate, Be empathetic to another human being who is a miracle. And take a look all around you. Because life is a miracle. Albert Einstein said, you can either live your life as if everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle. Well, today I want to let you know you are a miracle. I appreciate. You have a great day. Hey, this is John. And if you like that video, watch the next video because it is packed with things that you can do right now to achieve success way faster than ever before.
