Without a doubt the best gift I ever received was the gift of life from my parents. We all wonder about fate. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the reverse of being in the right place at the right time. Fate can sometimes be a wonderful or cruel thing. I don’t know if you have ever seen the Benjamin Button movie, but the Cate Blancett character is hit with a car that ruins her ballet career. It shows in the movie how many things had to happen had just the right time for her to have the accident. There are many situations in life that are comparable resulting in good or bad things happening in one’s life. However, the most fateful day of your life was day that you were conceived. Just think if your father was too tired or your mother had the proverbial headache you would not be here, plain and simple. There could have been dozens of things at that particular moment that could have prevented them from having sex. Instead, you were created, for better or worse. No question that is the greatest gift I have ever had, and I have my parents to thank for it. The gift of life, with all of its craziness, strangeness and wonderfulness, there cannot be anything greater than that.
