Tuesday, June 2, 2009

What happened last night?

Most people would saying "nothing much". But think about what we took for granted....

Overnight your hair and fingernails grew a little bit, your skin made billions of new cells, your metabolism slowed down and your heart beat more slowly and all the chemical equations which took place in your body did not need conscious thought. Outside in your lawn, new leaves began to develop as moisture and nutrients were brought up from the root system to produce oxygen. The grass might be just high enough to cut. The earth and moon made another trip around the sun, which is just a little bit higher in today’s sky than yesterday. Even the stars moved a little and light we see from them is possible years old.

It's no wonder we take things for granted and assume very little is changing and therefore does not get our attention. We are amazed at children as they grow up because every few days there is a subtle difference in the way they act or the way they look. After 18 years of growth, people become less interested in us because we don't look much different on the outside than we did 12 months ago.

In our fast paced world we forget that there are billions of things happening every second that we can't see or feel so we think they don't exist. Take a minute to acknowledge yourself for sticking around another day and all the "work" you accomplished. :-)