You Matter

The law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in a system remains constant ("is conserved"), although energy within the system can be changed from one form to another or transferred from one object to another. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed.

When you take into account the law at its simplest form; energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed, you begin to understand how truly complex we humans are. All the energy from the Big Bang, or depending on what you believe, the days of Adam and Eve, it is still here. There is no new energy, and none has left this twisting kaleidoscope that is the universe. Each new baby is made up of the dust from the earth dinosaurs walked on. Some may have the energy that helped Cleopatra become the person she was. We have molecules of stardust and comets and whale tooth running though of veins. The same energy that give the lioness her power, is inside of each of us. We have that potential, as does all energy. And to think, this has all come from the same energy that built the galaxy, it has just been reordered, a trillion trillion trillion times over.

After I realised this, I began to look at the top deck of a train as a miracle: this collection of people is as phenomenal as the stars when you witness them on a clear night. We are all unique, unrepeatable, perambulating micro-universes - we have never been before and we will never be again. And that is only the physical side of us. When you take into account the wonder that is our minds, it adds a whole new dimension. We process and perceive everything with such distinctiveness that no two people will ever be the same. Oh the honour of being alive! So don’t you dare spend a second thinking you are unimportant because in the whole of time, until the sun destroys the earth, there will only ever be one of you.