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Marc2b -> RE: Family tragedy (1/2/2008 11:18:04 AM)
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My condolences on your loss.
When I am feeling down about dearly departed loved ones, I keep this in mind:
The atoms that make up our bodies were forged in the interior of stars at the beginning of time. Through eons they drifted as gas through the depths of space before coming together as our sun and Earth. They have been part of the hot magma and the seas that sculpted the young earth. They have been part of plants and animals through the ages, finally coming together to form us – a self aware entity in which the whole is truly greater than the sum of it’s parts. Upon our death our atoms continue their journey, becoming once again a part of the earth, and new plants and animals. Billions of years from now, when the earth is no more, they will continue as gas floating through the endless reaches of space until they come together again to be a part of new stars, new planets and perhaps even new life. In other words:
Each and every one of us is a part of the universe, we always have been and always will be.
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