Your Luck
By Len Morgan
If you consider
yourself to be an unlucky person, think on this, and discover just how lucky
you really are:
It is estimated that -
worldwide - there are 100 million couples, engaging in sexual intercourse, each
day. Of these 910,000 will result in
conception. Nine months later, as a direct result, there will
be 400,000 live births. The odds, therefore, appear to be 1 in
250 but hang on, that is not the full story.
Each conception relies on just
one sperm surviving to fertilise an egg. Each ejaculation
produces, on average, 50 million sperm; the odds of you existing at all are
therefore 1/250 x 50,000,000 or 1 in 12,500,000,000. In other
words, you would be 500 times more likely to win the lottery than to be born, is
that lucky?
In my experience, you make your
own luck; be positive and it will always be good.
WELL:
It was a
good idea for an article but I’ve never been good at Sums so maybe some
kind mathematician could tell me if my calculations are correct or pie in the
sky…
Hi Len, I would suggest the "LUCK" begins from whom and where!
ReplyDeleteJust being born is certainly not lucky for some. Your early calculations
look dodgy to me, check conceptions to live births.
PS I envy those 100,000,000 couples having it away every day.
You too?
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