We are time. We are light.

Genetically, we are 99.9% the same from each other. Saying that we are more similar than different is a vast understatement.

Our bodies are made from the dust of ancient stars.

Over four billion years of existence have led to this precise moment; from the beginning of the universe, to the formation of our planet, to the dinosaurs, cave dwellers, the time of kings and queens, to electricity, cars, planes, the World Wars, to our parents meeting each other, and then to us being born. It has all led up to you reading these words right now.

It's all too easy to look around and think that nothing is out of the ordinary, to become numb to just how mysterious, wondrous, and absurd life is.

My consciousness defines me, yet it creates this illusion that I am separate from the rest of existence.

I am like a wave that thinks it is separate from the ocean.

I am a leaf that thinks it is different from the tree it grows upon.

I search for these moments because when I find them, they remind me of who I am.

And they confirm for me who we are.