| When you open your eyes to a cosmic perspective, something awe inspiring stays with you and you see life in a whole new way. Every single instance of life in this universe is an extension of you and you are an extension of it. As life, we are not as old as we often think we are. Science shows that heavier elements that compose everything we see today were forged within dying stars, that existed long before the earth was formed. If life emerged out of those components we can then understand that every living part of you is in truth older than life itself. Perhaps we should not only be counting your age in terms of decades, but in the billions of years. The fact that you are alive today, and that your body is literally made of star stuff, is living proof of this. As descendants of life, we may yet widen our perspectives of what we really are. Your essence did not appear out of thin air, but rather, it is composed of cells that have divided, evolved and multiplied over millions of years, information that has condensed under natural selection and universal processes. In some ways, you have not only been as you see yourself right now, but you have, in fact, experienced the past as your individual parents and even those before them, recursively. Everything that makes you could not exist otherwise. From this perspective, the essence that encompasses you is linked to every other entity that has ever lived, and through you and others, will also be linked to those that have yet to ... |
