Have you ever seen that
Pseudo-inspirational quote
About how you're made from
Tiny bits of star stuff
And therefore should always remember some ******* about how special you are?

I think it's amazing that people
Use some ****** metaphor like this
To remind others of their worth.
Literally everything is made of
Tiny bits of star ****.
That's not special,
and that's not unique.
What is amazing
Is that you, alive, right now
Came from a one in a million
Combination of perfect  
universal circumstance.
A tiny ball of rock
happened to end up
the exact perfect distance
from a fiery gaseous orb
To be the exact perfect temperature to support life.
That little orb happened to have
An abundance of oceans
For that life to evolve into amazing little creatures.
Those creatures eventually
left those seas
Slowly becoming
Something absolutely new.

You are the product of millions of years of coincidences,
and natures trial and and error. They all lead to you,
A bundle of cells all communicating and constantly working together
In such a complex
and fantastic manner,
that we still don't
completely understand
how all that flesh and blood
And water and electricity
Can work together to not only allow us to run and walk
and eat and breath
But also to discover and contemplate and create and
truly, consciously,
THINK
In a manner that,
as far as we are aware
No other creature can.

You have the capacity
To imagine and dream
and choose and worry
And love and hate
And feel both joy and pain.
Those are things that nothing else
On earth,
Or in our solar system
Or anywhere else in
this known universe
Can do the way you do.

So use that unique cognitive power
To be aware of just how truly incredible you are,
Not as star stuff
But as the fragile,
Beautiful collection
Of flesh and bones and blood,
That against all odds has become
You.

j.e.puckett