atoms aren’t alive. yet sometimes, a few million, billion or trillion lifeless particles decide to congregate,
they mix, blend and work together for six-hundred-thousand hours (give or take) to be You
hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, mundane atoms, commonly found throughout the universe, atoms that are nothing special, except: they are You.
although not alive, mundane atoms combine into enzymes, proteins, lipids, carbs, eventually forming bones, muscles, guts, flesh, blood…
and neurons, cells that receive information from the environment, interprets it, and directs an orchestra of physiology an orchestra which creates a symphony, a symphony so magical, it produces, as a byproduct,
consciousness,
awareness that persists for about seventy years (give or take), awareness that persists, as You, until You die.
then, those atoms, who were never alive, scatter. likely to end up in one of those millions of galaxies, each loaded with atoms that, for whatever reason, decline to congregate
Desert Dweller 