June 02, 2005

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I've been thinking a lot
about evaporation
and deja vu.

This molecule of water is about to become me. Before me, it was in a pipe, in a creek, in a block of ice, in the sky, in the ground, evaporating off the back of an old man who sings in a language I've never heard. Rolling around to be spit out in a language I've never heard.

So when I breathe on a pane of glass to write my initials, that molecule comes out and for a second I'm 85 years old and singing. Rising to the atmosphere to sail across the ocean. Sleeping in a snowbank. Rolling down a mountain. Rushing through a pipe and resting in a waterglass.
When I fall on your head and slip behind your ear and down your collar, will you remember me?

Posted by Sonya at June 2, 2005 06:44 PM
Comments

heart heart heart

Posted by: yukino at June 2, 2005 10:40 PM

I think Sonya ponderings beat out Sonya fictions.

How did the research paper go, by the way?

Posted by: Lori D at June 3, 2005 07:26 AM

I left my window rolled down and now you're all over the car seat!

Posted by: flamingbanjo at June 3, 2005 10:45 AM

That's one of the wonderful things about the universe - very little if anything ever gets wasted. Matter converts to energy and vica-versa. All the elemental components that make up everything around us -- from the photons streaming out of your computer screen allowing you to read this message, to the raging inferno of X Rays at the center of our galaxy and beyond -- it's all been around in one form or another since the beginning of time, created in the first few seconds of the Big Bang.

So, you may be walking around with a couple of the same electrons that resided in an atom that was part of a protein molecule that inhabited a bacterium that lived in the gut of Hammurabi or Jesus. A few of the protons in your body might have been tossed this way by the cataclysm of an exploding supernova 10 billion lightyears away.

As Einstein said, "it's all relative", but when you really think about it, we're always carrying around infinitessimally tiny pieces of each other, sharing them, trading them like sports cards:

"I'll give you three charmed quarks for a tau neutrino."

Posted by: KING COMTE I at June 3, 2005 10:46 AM

that made me both smile deep inside as well as gave me a chill.
it continually intrigues me that i can be simultaneously enchanted and terrified of such ideas.

Posted by: leblanc at June 6, 2005 02:09 PM