Life can become so crowded with routines, responsibilities and worries that the simple fact of being alive can disappear into the background. We move from one task to another without stopping to consider how extraordinary it is that we are here at all, let alone doing things.
Bill Bryson captures that idea with a quote that turns an everyday fact into something almost astonishing. The American journalist and author asks readers to pause and appreciate the improbable privilege of existence itself.
