stardust

There's a lot of ways to be amazed; here's one: everything that humans have ever touched is stardust.


Sometimes, it's still amazing whenever I think about it. Of course, astronomers are probably well aware of that, but recently I still got a minor amazement when I realized this to its full extent.

There are those times when I still wonder how the illusion of consciousness has been achieved, but I have never been able to get far. Nature is strange like that (or as someone else puts it, "preposterous").

There are still times when I lie in the bed awake thinking about this, but I don't know if it is even a valid question to ask.