So, what about guardian angels and do you think they really exist? Of course, they do. All you need to do is think about your own life and the close calls and challenges that you have had. No one goes through life without close calls and challenges. It is part of being human. And what if the circumstances had been different, that something terrible happened or that you got wiped out? For the fact that you survived, you can thank your guardian angel. And what I am calling close calls refers to a lot of things, not just near-death experiences—but also things like the right job or career, the right spouse, the right kids, your health, your friends…. The list is long. It has to do with how we humans manage to get through life. Close calls and guardian angels are part of life’s mysteries. One could argue that the fact that we manage to get through life at all is due not to how capable, smart or gifted we think we are but rather to how capable our guardian angel is.
I know what you are thinking. All I am talking about is blind luck. Everyone understands that. Well, I am saying that blind luck may be another way of looking at it, but the same question remains: where does blind luck come from?
But I agree that the big question is why guardian angels seem to help some people more than others. Why do some survive close calls and others don’t? Well, I have thought about this and my theory is the sad fact that some guardian angels are just better at what they do than others. We get assigned one at birth and the angel sticks with us as long as it can; and when the guardian angel gives out, makes a mistake, or does not do its job, that is when we get into trouble. Plus, all guardian angels are not equal. We do not know exactly why, but many have attributed the differences in effectiveness to how smart the guardian angel is, how the angel was brought up, its education, temperament, and its personality.
And how do I know all of this? Of course, I don’t. That we humans get through life as well as we do most of the time remains a mystery and always will.
And doesn’t the mystery of life apply to life on the Planet Earth for all of us living creatures? Of course it does. And there is so much we still don’t know. Look, we live on one relatively small planet in one solar system containing nine planets circling an average star in a galaxy that contains at least 100 billion stars and maybe as many as 400 billion. And how many galaxies are there? Well, scientists now think the number may exceed two trillion. And that our universe may be part of a multiverse. Yet there are many people on our small planet who believe we humans have all the answers. They believe that the only life or advanced life—if you can call human life “advanced”—exists right here and nowhere else in the universe. There are some who will tell you that they have all the answers and that their own belief system—their own “religion”—is the correct one, that all other religions are fake or inferior, and that if you do not believe what they do, you will not go to heaven. They base their beliefs on ancient texts, creeds, and liturgies that have been handed down through the ages as humans have evolved over the centuries. And they base it on their own experience.
Well, people who believe in guardian angels base this belief on their own experience too.
Besides, what do we really know? We humans are newbies. We have only been around a few million years—Homo sapiens only a few hundred thousand—on a planet that began from cosmic dust some 4.5 billion years ago. Life on the planet Earth has gone through five mass extinctions and there are likely to be more. Scientists know our sun will give out in another five billion years and will turn into a red giant “only” in another billion years, making all life uninhabitable on the planet. What is this all about?
So why not guardian angels? Their existence explains a lot of things though it does not explain the ultimate meaning of life. Beyond our pay grade to figure this out conclusively, as they say in Washington. So, we soldier on doing the best we can, groping for straws to find meaning where we can. This is our plight. And whether guardian angels can be proven or whether it is just plain luck is less important than the fact that we made it through another day and are still going. That is enough for many, and it is enough for me. For that we can give praise and thanksgiving for whatever mysterious force might have made this happen. Many people call this force “God.”
Thank you for sticking with all 22 episodes about my life. Now back to the things that are driving us all crazy, the current situation in our country and in our world. And along the way I will be throwing in some of my best stories which have been posted before on my “Gullible’s Travels” series. I hope you will stick with me.