Thoughts on the growth of life while watching a music video.

I was watching a video of plants growing in fast-motion. You can see the little sprout pop up from the dirt, and then it turns toward the sun and starts to rise out of the ground. It's so amazing. It's something I bet most of us never really stop to think about. How out of a seed, giant things can grow. Out of one little thing, you get the leaves and the stalk and everything else. That's incredible, how nutrients and water and sunlight all combine to make something grow.

It's like if you really think about how you were born. You did not exist until a microscopic event occurred. You started as this amazingly tiny being that over time grows larger and more complex because your cells multiply and multiply and multiply until there's you, a real human. I'm 6 ft. tall and 210 pounds, yet I used to be microscopic. That blows my mind. And you would not exist without the insanely long chain of people that you descended from. If one tiny thing had happened differently hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years ago, you would not exist. You are the culmination of a hereditary line that stretches back to before human beings even existed. None of us are random, isolated beings. We were all meant to be.

But really none of us are new. We're all made out of the same matter that has existed since the beginning of time. The same stuff that was present in the Big Bang has made every single thing out there that exists today. Everything. Once again life coming out of something so unimaginably small. It's so beautiful.