You Matter

Every choice you make makes you unique
“You are the universe experiencing itself”
-Carl Sagan
We are a random assortment of protons electrons and neutrons or quarks if you want to go deeper
Of all the different combinations possible a vast and infinite universe is built
In that universe a galaxy completely unique to every other galaxy
In that a solar system, quite different from others a planet
where the particles combine
to make chemicals that send signals to biological organs
made of cells made from the particles
all within these natural machines called humans
that convert food into love and movies and music and thoughts and actions and choices.
All the infinite choices all the combinations
Even though the same particles make up the machines
and the sky
and the stars
and the signals to my brain telling me to do the things I do
to think the thoughts, of all the possible thoughts
out of the possible combinations of quarks and atoms and elements and so on
of all the possibilities I am right now experiencing this one
no else can experience all the exact same chemical reactions
all the particle attractions
And so with all the thoughts and feelings and decisions
That these machines create
each of these machines is completely unique.
No one else can be you in the same way that you are you.
You are universe experiencing itself.
You are the particles trying out their luck, their possibilities.
You are the particles reacting to all the other particles.
The universe reacting to itself
facing itself
suffering through itself
and triumphing over itself
You are the universe realizing itself and understanding itself.
You alone can know all the things that you know
You matter.