You’re so lucky you’re not a chair!
By: Victoria Ware
Tags: Self Improvement, Feel Good, Stardust, Happy, Universe

If by any reason you happen to be feeling down, doubting yourself, or just having a crappy day — this should help you look at things in a different perspective.

Let’s start at the begining. The simple scientific composition of everything. The screen you’re reading this on, the clothes youre wearing and the foods you consume. Everything around you, everything in you, everything your eyes have ever seen are just some atoms arranged in a certain pattern.

You yourself are nothing more than an arrangement of atoms.

Stars and galaxies made up of atoms, like human being.

Our whole universe is composed of an estimated, according to google: “between ten quadrillion vigintillion and one-hundred thousand quadrillion vigintillion atoms”.

Note: To be honest with you, even with 9 years experience as an accountant, I have NO idea how many zeros that is.

And 90% of said atoms are busy being hydrogen out in space, which means that out of the 10% left we have to fit the earth, moon, sun, me, you, my ex-stepdad’s massive 1969 Cadillac deville and everything else in the world.

This is a chair made up of atoms, not you.

And yet, you aren’t just a random arrangement of atoms are you?

You have something more, a little extra “spice” so to say. Some would say a soul, or a conciousness; whatever you wanna call it, us humans arent just mere atoms in synchronicity. We are more. Much more. We are alive.

Polar bear don’t care.

Yes there are many other things in our world, which are ‘alive’. Our pets, live breathe, exist, and if you’ve ever had a cat you know they are conscious of being assholes all the time. You might say to yourself, “I would rather be a Bird!” — “I would rather be a great white shark in the ocean, being the apex of the seas!” Yeah sure, that sounds like a lot of fun too. “A tiger in the deep jungle, free, powerful and strong”- uhum. I got you, I myself would have loved to be a polar bear and hibernate all winter long.

But we are humans, we “get to be” humans which are at the top of the food chain. We live in comfort, security, stability, and its safe to say we “rule” this earth. — despite our lacking individual physical abilities vs. a tiger).

And yet so often we fail to see ourselves as the truly spectacular beings we really are, how many odds we have transcended just by existing.

Out of a universe of endless possibilities for ‘matter’ and atoms to be arranged, here YOU are, not being a chair… being a Human! Do you grasp how amazing that fact is? HUMAN, wow. You’re alive, you’ve hit the universe’s lottery jackpot!

You’ve beat the odds again, and again to be able to exist. To be able to read this. When you were conceived, you started your journey into being by beating around 5,000 other swimmers to your targeted destination. — If you know what I mean.

Jeez, not even 1,000 out of the 5K made it halfway there! But YOU’RE an winner, you we’re born winning so you wouldnt know what those other 4,999 feel like it. And why should you?

You worked hard, you swam, you conquered, you stuck around long enough and you came into this world by once again….

You guessed it!

BEATING THE ODDS.

Winner of odds & human, like you.

Did you know that around ONE MILLION babies don’t make past 24 hours of birth? This is a sad tragedy, which YOU have overcome. You’ve again succeeded in making past the age of 5, which I will assume this since you are reading this.

Side Note: (if you’re under the age of 5 and reading this — wow! You are going places kid! and in case no one’s told you: I am SO PROUD of you, good job!!! )

You are a grown human, existing during the technological peak of humanity as we know it and yet, you feel sad? Inadequate in some form of way? That’s okay, because you are so lucky you get to feel that way.

No, really. I mean it.

You have freedom to be, freedom to think, freedom to do, to create! You could wake up tomorrow and go to Waikiki if your heart desires and your finances allow. You are the universe at its best, and yet you are just atoms. Atoms which are millions and billions of years old, all piled up into YOUR human being.

And not a chair!

Lucky YOU!

A Lucky Cat. Which is lucky like you, but still not you.

You’re not a table, not a sidewalk or a toilet seat, not the twin I ate at the womb… Think of the worst possible thing you can imagine, yeah,

…thankfully you’re not that!

Not you.

Right now, this second in which you exist is a miracle of nature. A wonderful cosmic synchronicity which happens to make up your entire being. The atoms which line the walls of your beating heart were once distant twinkling galaxies and stars. You are an extraordinary cosmic symphony which is living, breathing magic. Pure Stardust Magic. We are made up of the stuff which ignited fires in the heart of stars centuries ago, those atoms which burned in a distant sky are now existing inside of YOU.

“Even through your hardest days, remember you are made of stardust.”- Carl Sagan

Amazing starstuff composed of atoms which will eventually become amazing human.

So if today- or any day, you feel like you need a little pep talk, a little reminder of how just LUCKY you really are. A reminder of just how amazing YOU as a human being really are, if you want to feel like you are a shining star in this universe of darkness…

Do yourself a favor and give yourself some grace: Love yourself like Kanye West loved himself in 2014. After all , you’re out of this world. Look around you. Remember who you really are. Remember where you came from. Remember that you are the universe at its best. You are pure magic.

The universe is magical, much like you.

This is a dumpster. It’s not you.

Not you, even if your ex disagrees.

Thankfully you’re not that! Now go on, and be amazing today like you were truly meant to.