And yet the odds are not always in our favor as they keep stacking up - e.g. if nothing bad occurs at 1pm, nor 2pm, nor 3pm, etc., then the dice continues to be rolled. A thousand beautiful days (or thirty thousand?), but in one of those… well even then, it is no guarantee. Either one way or the other. Time marches inexorably on.
And yet the odds are not always in our favor as they keep stacking up - e.g. if nothing bad occurs at 1pm, nor 2pm, nor 3pm, etc., then the dice continues to be rolled. A thousand beautiful days (or thirty thousand?), but in one of those… well even then, it is no guarantee. Either one way or the other. Time marches inexorably on.