What time is it?
Imagine that your life began roughly 300,000 years ago is one of the planets first humans. At this time, you live in Africa, your modern-day Morocco and your life isn't too different from that of your hominid parents. You make crude tools hunt and gather food and materials until eventually you perish but this is only the beginning because after dying you travel back in time to be reincarnated as the second human ever. Were to Live While you don't remember your former life, your previous actions affect you nonetheless, and after dying, once more, you return as the third person than the fourth, the fifth. And so on, living the lives of every single human that's ever walked. The Earth. Strung end-to-end these lives. Last almost four trillion years. Since you only recall the life, you're currently living, your psyche doesn't carry the entire. Our weight of human history. However, each of your lifetimes and still has a profound impact on your future selves, sometimes your influence on the world is obvious, but these major historical figures only account for a tiny fraction of your experience, instead Your Existence consists mostly of ordinary lives filled with everyday tasks. Eating laughing working and worrying for approximately one-tenth of your four trillion years. You're a hunter gatherer for 60%. You're an agriculturalists developing tools and techniques which you employ over roughly 800 billion years of working on farms across your lifetimes. You spend 1.5 billion years having sex and another 250 million years giving birth in total, 20% of your existence is Meant raising children to whom you impart a variety of cultural values that influence the trajectory of generations in some lives. You shatter those cultures through Invasion and imperialism in others. You suffer as your lands and loved ones are taken away in over 1% of lives. You're Afflicted with malaria or smallpox while in others. You treat. These conditions saving countless versions of yourself in Humanity's early days. The average lifespan is fairly Really short there are fewer lives to live and your influence is usually limited to people physically near you. But as humans survive longer on average and Earth's population grows, you start to spend more time, reliving the same action packed. Here's a full third of your existence comes after 1200 and a quarter of it takes place after 1750 at this point technology and Society start changing faster than ever. You invent steam engines, could figure factories and generate electricity, which power the daily Machinery of all of your later lives, you live through Revolutions in science. The deadliest Wars in history and dramatic environmental destruction. On average, each new life lasts longer, but the pace of your existence keeps accelerating conversations. That previously took months to unfold. Now happen in minutes, business ventures, that you built over Generations, transform overnight, you enjoy luxuries. You never could have sampled before even in your past lives as kings and queens, after living over 100 billion lives, you're finally reborn as the youngest person alive. Today. But, despite living through three hundred thousand years of human history. Your actions have more impact today than 99% of your past lives high-speed air. Travel allows you to carry contagions and cures across an ocean in hours. And the internet makes your personal sphere of influence global allowing you to collaborate with anyone anywhere without even leaving. Home in recent lives, you've invented tools to rewrite, the genes of living organisms permanently altering their future generations. And in this life, you might create even more technologies that make the world safer Kinder and more Equitable for countless future lives. However, one careless invention could just as easily be catastrophic between nuclear weapons, lab leaks, climate change and other existential threats Humanities risk of inducing our own. Tension has never been higher in this fast-paced interconnected world. It's frightening Lee, easy to undo all of Humanity's progress or potentially cut short, all your possible Futures. There's no way to know what will happen next but what's clear is that your potential is Limitless. So, how will you spend this life and what can you do to work towards a better future for all your lives to come if we make wise choices? Today, our grandchildren's grandchildren can have the opportunity to thrive. Knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of Justice, Pope and Beauty.