Sunday, January 18, 2009

You were born a champion


Have you ever thought about the battles you won before you were born?
“Stop and think about yourself” says Amram Scheinfeld, an expert on genetics.“In all the history of the world there was never anyone else exactly like you, and in all the infinity of time to come, there will never be another.”
You are very special person. And many struggles took place that had to be successfully concluded in order to produce you. Just think: tens of millions of sperm cells participated in a great battle, yet only one of them won the one that made you! It was a great race to reach a single object: a precious egg containing a tiny nucleus. This goal for which the sperms were competing was smaller in size that the point of needle. And each sperm was so small that it would have to be magnified of times before it could be seen by the human eye, yet it is on this microscopic level that your life’s most decisive battle was fought.
The head of each of the million of sperms contained a precious cargo of 24 chromosomes, just as there were 24 in the tiny nucleus of the egg. each chromosome was composed of jelly-like beads closely strung together. Each bead contained hundred of genes to which scientists attribute all the factors of you’re heredity.
The chromosomes in the sperm comprised all the hereditary material and tendencies contributed by your father and his ancestors; those in the egg-nucleus the inheritable traits of your mother and her ancestors. Your mother and father themselves represented the culmination of over two billion years of victory in the battle to survive. And then one particulars sperm-the fastest, the healthiest, the winner united with the waiting egg to form one, tiny living cell.
The life of the most important living person had begun. You had become a champion over the most staggering odds you will ever have to face. For all practical purposes you had inherited from the vast reservoir of the past all the potential abilities and powers you need to achieve your objectives.
You were born to be a champion, and no matter what obstacles and difficulties lie in your way, they are not one-tenth so great as the ones that have already been overcome at the moment of your conception. Victory is built in to every living person.


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