#i know many might find that carl sagan stuff cheesy but it's still something that really stuck out to me as a kid | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

uncanny-tranny · 9 months ago

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I know the posts that are, essentially, the Carl Sagan "you are made of starstuff" quotes can be cheesy or almost... I guess too fantastical, but I've looked at human cells, and do you ever notice they almost look like Van Gogh's paintings (at least some of them!). Each of your (conservative estimate) ~30 trillion cells in your body contribute to building you, and they're all just... really beautiful. Even the most "simple" of your cells reminds me of a very calming painting, lily-pads on a lake, a reminder that you're here. That feels like art that's only captured once in a lifetime, quite literally, too. I hope you remember that, whenever you feel incomplete, uncomplex, listless, whatever it may be. If you're made of starstuff, you're made also of trillions of paintings.

#positivity #encouragment #described images #image description in alt #of corse your cells won't look blue under a microscope but it holds the potential to be dyed in these beautiful ways #and frankly i think that's pretty fucking cool #the body is not holy but neither is it wicked #to find the ugly in the body and soul you also have to find the beauty #there are so many other examples i could put here but if you can fuck around with even a simple microscope do it #and then realize that those cells belonged to somebody. realize that you have the same type of cells in you now #anyway 👍 hope somebody is also not normal about this #it's really easy to lose that sense of scale or awe but sometimes it hits you when you least expect for it to be there #i know many might find that carl sagan stuff cheesy but it's still something that really stuck out to me as a kid

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