Chance?

   I saw this feather, exactly as you see it below, while I was walking in the park a few days ago. When I first passed it, I imagined that someone had placed it in the ground upright, quite intentionally, as a kind of marker. I thought that perhaps it was there indicating the grave site of a pigeon or squirrel, but after inspecting it closely, I noticed that there were other feathers nearby, strewn about in a way that appeared haphazard. This information forced me to reconsider my original reading.

   I realized that how I now viewed the scene, based on different, perhaps only more information, altered my previous reading a lot. I began to think a bit more about my convictions on the whole, and how much weight I should be giving them at any particular time. It became apparent that I would never have enough information about anything to really judge it correctly. This seemed to include my own life.

   Although that feather's placement in the grass and earth had seemed too intentional to have come from pure chance, perhaps it is my own sense of what is probable should be examined more closely.

What are the chances?