the fact that i'm me is just...unmatchable luckiness. it sounds like an egotistical thing to remark but if you look at it scientifically, is resounding. there is an average of 37.2 trillion cells in the human body.

37.2 trillion.

a truly incomprehensible amount of 'things' making up who each and every one of us are. but it gets so, so much smaller.

there are over 25,000 genes in the human genome. all these genes are the building blocks of you. your hair, skin, nails, eyes, mouth, stomach, internal organs, nervous system, brain functions, defining characteristics, it's all there in these microscopic strands of DNA being coded and processes by microscopic proteins and somehow it creates you. and although it gets that small, to the size where one altered gene could change your entire life (literally. one singular extra chromosome and you're barely the same person anymore,) we ignore the largest effect of our genetic makeup; we're human.

since our bodies use energy to do work, and we're basically individual outlets of energy and electromagnetic forces made of stars just like everything else in the universe, this gave you the slight opportunity to be anything else in the universe. somehow the energy that makes up your atoms and cells found it's way into the reproductive cells of your parents to develop you. imagine if it had transferred and manifested itself not into you but a new dwarf planet, another moon, a tidal wave, a lightening bolt, anything.

if we're all made up of energy, and energy has no limitations, we have the potential to someday be something other than humans.

how relieving is that? all these tiny tiny anatomical things about us made up of immense amounts of energy have come together to form our beautiful, chaotic nature of humanity, yet our limitations do not end at what we are now, they don't exist. if you're not happy with who you are, know there's a good chance your bodily energy will reincarnate as something totally badass oneday, and that's also you.