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“As the summer breeze blows

and the tree branches shake

the flowers blossom to the world

bringing sweetness to one’s ache”

- D.G

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“Joy and pain, sunshine and rain”

- unknown

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“she looked out the window

inside her mind

it was extremely hard

to distinguish the stars

for her thoughts shined brightly

and placed themselves in the night

moving in ecstasy

dancing and singing

stealing her from reality”

- D.G

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why humans are 93% stardust

this took me a long time to understand but I think it’s so interesting that it’s worth spending time thinking about. studies of nuclear physics have shown that every element in that periodic table except from hydrogen is essentially stardust. hydrogen is Big Bang dust, the simplest form of atom and the one first formed; 300 million years later, these hydrogen atoms clumped together because of gravity, and the pressure at the centre increased. at 15 million degrees F, this pressure made their nuclei fuse together, creating helium; this process releases lots of energy including light. over time helium fuses with hydrogen to form lithium and this process continues, creating all of the elements in the periodic table up to iron (creating the others requires more energy). however after fusion the star cools and collapses, imploding with enough energy to create higher elements such as nickel, krypton, gold etc - this implosion is called a supernova. the exploded remains float through the universe and eventually clump together with other stardust, forming a new star. 

essentially, every atom in our body apart from hydrogen is stardust; out of 7x10^27 atoms in our body, around 4.2x10^27 are hydrogen, therefore the amount of stardust atoms in our body is 40%. however, stardust atoms are the heavier elements (hydrogen is generally found in the water in our body and has very small mass), and as the human body is 60% water (and hydrogen is only 11% of that water mass), 93% of the mass in our body is stardust. 

most of the material we are made of came from exploded stars - some parts of us are as old as the universe itself.

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93 PERCENT STARDUST

We have calcium in our bones,

iron in our veins, 

carbon in our souls, 

and nitrogen in our brains. 

93 percent stardust, 

with souls made of flames, 

 we are all just stars 

that have people names. 

— by Nikita Gill —

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Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”