Hey, what's going on my dear sweet asteroid, how are you doing today?

Hope that you're doing good, hope you're feeling good, I'm Cori Allen.

This is the Astro Hustle, and one of the chances.

We're here again together, you know? What are the chances that we're here at all?

I was thinking about that just over this week. Just the mind-melting reality that we are all a

product of cosmic causality. I swear I did not mean for that

to rhyme it just kind of came out like that but really I was thinking a little bit earlier

about how bizarre it is that hypothetically at one point there was an explosion in

outer space which set off a series of causal events one thing caused the next

thing and the complexification of that thing caused another thing and so on and so forth until billions of years later here we are in this form in our bodies on this planet

intertwining somehow from that moment all that time ago a thing called

consciousness arose and yours and mine are intertwining right now and what's

amazing is that even though most of us are aware to some degree or another, just how delicate the very circumstances of our existence are the chance that we're able to be here and enjoy being alive and being awake in this moment.

Everyone still finds it really hard to be comfortable, to be themselves, to live a life with as little stress as little anxiety and

mental gridlock as they can. But it's tough, you know, and I was talking to a friend

yesterday and we were talking about how each of his

killed or we just kind of become more and more relaxed and more comfortable in our

skin but it's one of the funny aspects of it is what we're talking about is that it's strange in human psychology.

You know, as Young put it, in order to understand our own identity, our own conscious agency, we're all observing everyone else and

individuating so we can see how we're different from them so that we're able to define who we are as an individual. But the irony about that

is that by setting ourselves apart and drawing the lines and creating the

boundaries of our identity and who we have to define and

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