Some things we all have in common…

“If you’re ever being too hard on yourself (or others), just remember that you’re literally made of stars that exploded billions of years ago. Fuck yeah.”

Right, left. Red, blue. Black, white. This, that. Shut up.

Did you know we all share about 99.9% of our DNA? That might make you wonder why so much emphasis is focused on the .1%. A casual glance in the comments section of literally any post online, and you’d think we all come from completely different universes.

But no, we didn’t. In fact, all life descends from one, single common ancestor - a microscopic organism that lived about four billion years ago. And every human began as one fertilized cell that has since divided into trillions.

Going even further back, every atom of every living body came from exploding stars, recycled matter. And every one of those atoms will eventually become something else.

More things we all have in common (there are many more, this is a fractional collection of fun facts):

• Every human body glows - it’s called biophoton emission

• We all contain the same basic elements (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen)

• Every living thing is temporary

• Every human has lived during the same 0.0000000000000000000001% slice of cosmic time

• All life is programmed to respond to its environment

• Everyone is at the center of their own subjective universe

• Everyone fears being alone

• Every living thing is built to repair itself

• Laughter exists in every culture on the planet - dogs, apes, foxes and even rats laugh, too

• We all are part of an unbroken chain of survival going back billions of years

• We all share the miracle of life, of which we know almost nothing about

If you are someone receiving or delivering negativity or hate towards one of your fellow beings, I hope you will consider these commonalities, which are far more significant in both quantity and quality as compared to any differences that may exist in that .1%.

You are not more right or more wrong than anyone else. Thinking you are will lead you down a path that isolates you from others who are just here, sharing the same rock as you, also not really knowing much about anything at all.

If we all committed to contributing outwards in a positive way instead of a negative way, as often as possible, I wonder what could be.

Another thing we can all agree on - love is way better than hate. With that in mind, start with loving yourself (there are so, so many reasons to, even if you can’t always recognize them). Then share that love you possess with the other living beings that you interact with. If they don’t love you back, show them through your example how, or at least why they should. Oops, there’s that should word again…

Remember, it’s a miracle that we’re here. Don’t you agree?

Love to all -

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Here in some instance of eternity

Sitting, smiling back at itself

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STFU

From Fire & Earth: A ThoughPose Poetry Collection | 11/21/2024

Just shut your fucking mouth

I’m yelling now, okay?

You’re wrong about this, since

It’s coming from you…

Someone like you, at least.

And I must be right because

I can’t handle otherwise.

LIES, LIES, LIES!

Am I the only one trying

Not to try, to take it easy,

All in stride on a zen-diagrammed

Slice of common-ground pie?

I mean, Jesus fucking Christ.

But it’s not your fault.

You numb fucking lab rat,

You’re too laced with bad speed,

Caught in a stationary wheel of

Non-consensual experimentation,

Inside death cages made to look like

Salvation, and dead-end mazes

Made to look like rewarding,

Miniature puzzle games.

I bet you can’t even guess

What happens next.

You know, why don’t you

Go and get the facts,

Then come back and talk

To me. Then, only then,

You can tell me the truth:

That there is no such thing,

That it all goes wrong when

Everyone’s always right,

That we’ve been pitted against

One another in an unranked,

Online Battle Royale match

With endless respawns,

Infinite ammo and no armor

And you know what? It worked,

Because I could fucking kill you.

So until then, when the

Cheetos dust settles and

The keys stop impressing,

And the robots stop caring

About the fact that we just

Don’t care at all anymore

When open conversations

Stay that way, closed-

Mindedness stops sucking up

All the suckers, and we again

Realize we’ve been on the same

Team this whole damn time

Until then, just please

Shut

The

Fuck

Up.

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