I Am…
…you are, he is, she is,
they are… But you knew that already,
didn’t you? Or have you really stopped
to think about it recently – or ever for that matter?
Huh?
I guess we need a little
clarification on this. So…do this. Touch
yourself. That’s right, go ahead and
touch yourself.
So, what did you feel? Skin?
Of course. Maybe some hair? OK.
How about warmth? Sure, unless
you’re standing naked in your back yard in
Unless you’re numbed out of
your gourd or weren’t really paying attention, you felt YOU! So what’s so special about that? YOU’RE ALIVE!
Honest-to-goodness, really alive!
Think about it. For about a
zillion years you weren’t – alive that is.
You did not exist. You were only
scattered molecular stardust. You could
have been a little part of just about anything you can think of – oak tree,
beach, chicken feathers – you name it. (Don’t
dwell too long on this thought. It can
get pretty gross real quick if you let it.)
From the beginning of time,
we have been nothing more than a potential biological jigsaw puzzle waiting for
assembly. And now – son-of-a-gun, here
we are. From two microscopic half-cells
merged in a surge of passion, the miracle of genetics has transformed that
single cell into a zillion-celled, complex, functioning animal organism.
‘Tain’t no big deal, you
say? It happens every day?
Oh, c’mon, now. It is a mega-deal that happens thousands and
thousands of times a day. And – it
happens with a terrifically small percentage of errors. As a general rule, our noses, eyes and ears
wind up in pretty much the right place on our heads. We have the correct numbers of arms, legs,
fingers and toes. And our innards are
all positioned normally and function as they were intended. All this from a microscopic cell latched onto
the lining of Mom’s womb!
Let’s take a quick inventory
of “us”.
We all have a really cool, flexible,
articulating framework as a foundation for the rest of the stuff we’re made
of. Over 200 bones, all connected
together and hinged so we can walk, talk, stand, sit, run, bend, stoop, squat,
jump, reach, grasp, point, scratch, eat, push, pull, lift, swim, lie down and
perform any other maneuver or contortion you can think of. Cool, huh?
In addition of course, some of this framework also does a great job of
protecting our insides – brain, lungs, heart, and digestive system – from
damage from excessive outside forces.
All of these fairly solid
hunks of material are connected and maneuvered by our tendons, ligaments and
muscles. The assemblies of
interconnected, expandable, contractible, cells that work harmoniously as
directed to allow us to accomplish all of the things we’ve already mentioned.
Think about it! Just the fact that we have a solid supporting
framework that we can manipulate and move pretty much as we desire is amazing
in and of itself!
Our basic building blocks –
our cells – are all individually live little bits of protein and goo that use
the oxygen and nutrients they are supplied to multiply and do the jobs required
of the organ that they are a part of.
Our digestive system takes
the raw materials we provide it in the way of food (and occasionally assorted
garbage), processes it into a form usable by the cells and ships it out through
our internal distribution system. The
unusable excess is dumped (excuse the term) externally.
Our circulatory system –
heart, arteries, capillaries, veins – transport nourishment, oxygen, and an
assortment of other chemicals and substances (hormones, biological warriors,
waste materials and occasional invading buggies) to and from all of our body
parts (individual cells).
Our respiratory system – lungs
and associated passageways – snags the oxygen from the air, passes it along to
the transporters in our bloodstream, drags the carbon dioxide (one of the
byproducts of cell life) back out of the blood and expels it out into the air.
Our nervous system receives
outside stimuli from sights, sounds, smells, tastes and “feels”, translates it
into generally comprehensible information and either uses it immediately to
produce a response or stores it for future reference. At the same time, it keeps all of our
internal processes functioning in a fairly efficient manner.
Add to all of this, our
systems and sub-systems for gathering the outside stimuli in the first place
(eyes, ears, nose, etc.), fighting off disease, healing injuries, maintaining
body temperature, maintaining chemical balance, growing hair, producing
freckles, passing gas, reproducing, etc., and suddenly we are introduced to
ourselves as an extremely complex biological organism!
Think about it! We are one of the most complicated assemblies
of parts and pieces on the face of this earth!
We are so complicated in fact, that even after studying our body parts
for all these years to try to figure out exactly how all our stuff works, we
still don’t know everything! Maybe we
never will. Who knows?
Are ya trackin’ with me
here? We – you and I – are ALIVE! We’re functioning and doing all the stuff
that we human-type animals do. If that’s
not absolutely mind-boggling, I don’t know what is!
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