Stardust

Just random musings

Life moves fast.

No, really.  Life moves at an insane speed

We're currently hurtling through space
at 2.7 million miles and hour.  By the
time you've finished reading this one
sentence, you have moved far enough
to go from Seattle to New York and back

Just sitting at your desk

By the time you are twenty five you
will have traveled approximately
five hundred ninety billion miles
from the spot at which you took
your first breath.

That's a lot of mileage

I like to think that there are
tiny remnants of you and I
floating throughout our universe.
Atoms that have rubbed off of us, 
that have fused and split with other
atoms, eventually making their way 
off of our planet into space.

There's a trail of you spanning hundreds
of billions of miles all leading back to one 
point in space and time where you existed
for a fraction of a second.  No one else on
earth could ever have come into being in 
that spot.

A thousandth of a second and you're already
a mile away.

That's your moment.  That's where you began

I'd like to think that's where we go
once we've gone.

We came from the stars

It seems an appropriate ending

Author's Note

Apr 25, 2012