You'll Never Walk Alone
All things are interlinked with one another.
"We are all parts of one great body, planted by nature in mutual love and fitted for a social life." - Seneca, Epistles 95
"All things are interlinked with one another; a sacred bond unites them; and there is hardly one thing that is a stranger to another." - Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones II.45
There’s a fact about you that most people are told once, in a science class, and then unfortunately forget.
It’s this- every atom of calcium hardening your bones, every atom of iron threading through your blood, every atom of carbon that strings together your DNA- once inhabited a star that died before our sun was born.
Essentially, you’re not visiting this universe. You’re not just a random speck. You’re made of it, you’re it- the universe looking back at itself, assembled from the ruins of giant suns that exploded and scattered their guts across the dark some five billion years ago, so that, in the fullness …
