From conception to death, we are constantly changing. The universe
keeps changing, starting with its mysterious birth about 13.7 billion years
ago. Along the way the atoms were born and the galaxies spawned, and about four
billion years ago planet Earth saw the huge change called life, which began a
new history of changes. That led to another whopper in the universe called
consciousness, and then I wrote this and you are reading it.
Okay, that was fast. But you get the idea. Against the
backdrop of this cosmic spectacular, it shouldn’t be too hard to imagine that
we can with a little effort change and improve ourselves. In fact, I get giddy thinking about what we might become, we whom a poet called “the paragon of animals (and). . . in apprehension how like
a god!”