[100 Challenge] DanJi’s reading note_78

Why Fish Don't Exist
It is a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
Lulu Miller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 06 APR, 2021

Chaos is not a matter of the assumption that 'if it happens,' it is a matter of 'when it happens.' He is the only sure thing in the world and the master who rules us all. My father, a scientist, taught me earlier that we can never escape the 'second law of thermodynamics.' Entropy only increases and never decreases, no matter what we do.
My father said that chaos was our only ruler. The great whirlpool of chaos that happened to be what made us is the power that will destroy us at any time. Chaos is not interested in anything about us: our dreams, intentions, and most noble behaviors. Never forget, he said. No matter how special you feel to yourself, you are no different from an ant. It could be a little bigger, but it's not more important.
I think it's the length of time, and the length of time humans have existed here is as long as fingernails. We're probably going to disappear soon. So, if you look far away from Earth, we're nothing. There are planets there, and beyond that, there are more solar systems.
Twenty years later, when astronomer Neil Digras Tyson famously said, "We are a dot on a dot," I remembered my father's words.
I didn't know at the time not to take everything too seriously.