An Interesting Thought

Wow with this post, my blog has reached a major landmark. 

100 Posts!

Appropriate song to play while reading this:

This milestone calls for a celebration!
But considering I do not have the age or money to buy bottles of Dom Perignon, we are going to celebrate in a different manner.
While lurking online on an image board (not that forsaken hell-hole 4-chan), I came across a thread of a guy who lost his buddy to cancer. While the subject itself was rather melancholy, the original poster only wanted to do one thing: to spread positive vibes (referred to as SLAYER in this community) in honor of his buddy. One of the members posted an image that struck me and mad me look at life in a completely different manner. The following text is from the image.

You have two eyes, each composed of 130 million photoreceptor cells. In each one of those cells, there are 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) atoms-- That's more than all the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
However, each atom in each cell in each eye was formed in the core of the star, billions of years ago, and yet, here they are today, being utilized to capture the energy released from the same process.
All that to expand the consciousness that is YOU.
The universe had an interesting sense of irony, in that you are the universe experiencing itself. All you are is a thought.

That was a different perspective that I've never seen before and it just left me speechless. It's such a beautiful way to look at the universe and at life.
This is especially profound considering we just finished reading (at least I did) Macbeth, in which Macbeth discusses the futility and pointlessness of life. This puts a completely different twist on it. In a way, it eliminates the thought of the individual, of loneliness in this vast, seemingly infinite universe we call home. We are the universe. We are composed of dead stars and after our death, our matter will only go on and create further wonders, perhaps even life. It's an interesting prospect and I believe if more humans looked at life in this manner, we be much more united. I don't know, just a thought.