It's Elemental, Isn't It?

Being a part of stardust is an amazing situation.  How old does that really make me?  Am I as “old as the hills?”  Am I billions of light years old?

Supernova explosion NASA 1987

Think of all the interactions since the beginning of time - there is no way anyone can trace that type of ancestry!   The heat and cold, the flames and waters, mingling, exploding, flying throughout infinite space.  And parts of which landed on this old earth, only to further merge bits and pieces of these and those elements.  What a miracle!

Crab Nebula - NASA JPL-CalTech

Indeed.  But for particular pathways, led by a power greater than ourselves, we keep forming into these beings.  If only there was some element that helped us learn from past mistakes of humankind, wouldn’t we be able to evolve into wiser, kinder beings?      Theresa M

"Are We Really Made of Stardust?" read at Natural History Museum:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/are-we-really-made-of-stardust.html

Human body elements and stars - nhm.ac.uk