Life survives in the chaos of the cosmos by picking order out of the winds.
Death is certain, but life becomes possible by following patterns that lead like paths of firmer ground through the swamps of time . Cycles of light and dark, of heat and cold, of magnetism, radioactivity, and gravity all provide vital guides, and life learns to respond to even their most subtle signs. Nothing happens in isolation. We breath and bleed, we laugh and cry, we crash and die in time with cosmic cues. Inorganic matter got together in the right way to create a self-perpetuating organism that started a system of elaboration that has produced a pattern with several million pieces.