Everything is connected. My mother provided my existence in the first place. When she walks out of the room, she still breathes in oxygen and breathes out carbon dioxide, she still consumes food and water, releases methane, sheds skin as dust, absorbs sunlight, and consumes products. This book I hold in my hand, it required the existence of a bookbinder, of a writer, of an editor, an accountant, a tax man, a delivery man, a construction worker, a copyright official, and on and on. These people poured their existence into that object, just as all of my ancestors going back a billion years poured their existence into me. Right now, me typing this on a screen, requires all of them, everything, all connected, all pouring into this moment. Without those people, without those worlds and physical laws, without even you, without your questions and thoughts, I wouldn’t be here, doing this; I would be someone else, or nothing at all.
Everything is connected. My mother provided my existence in the first place. When she walks out of the room, she still breathes in oxygen and breathes out carbon dioxide, she still consumes food and water, releases methane, sheds skin as dust, absorbs sunlight, and consumes products. This book I hold in my hand, it required the existence of a bookbinder, of a writer, of an editor, an accountant, a tax man, a delivery man, a construction worker, a copyright official, and on and on. These people poured their existence into that object, just as all of my ancestors going back a billion years poured their existence into me. Right now, me typing this on a screen, requires all of them, everything, all connected, all pouring into this moment. Without those people, without those worlds and physical laws, without even you, without your questions and thoughts, I wouldn’t be here, doing this; I would be someone else, or nothing at all.
I am, therefore you are.