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This panel is the concentrated effort of 4096 days. It will take approximately 2.5 seconds to read.

Does this bother you?

Keep your eyes on the line.

[ Side text: The Earth's crust contains the neural centre of the human consciousness, fossilized between layers of plant life and extant decay. The entirety of the human experience is contained to a radius of 251,966 miles around a molten core.
The people of Earth call this "Home". ]

Follow me.

Everything you see here is the result of a million hands that you will never know,

Does this bother you?

[ Side text: Grief is the most complex mineral structure currently known to occur naturally in the mantle of the cervical spine. To excavate it without ecological damage takes time.

We cannot pass through this world alone. We stand on the rich soil of the graves of millennia, and our hands are dirty. ]

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Someone learned the placement of your bones to make sure you were well. Someone argued for a steering wheel that was easier to hold when your hands were tired. Someone logged the wood for your home, mined the earth for your silverware, learned how to harness lightning so you could see yourself in the dark. Do you think of them? Do you thank them?

It is the work of others to sustain me. It is specialist work, with specialist tools. I cannot meet the inventors of the incubators that bore me through my first life. I cannot express my gratitude to those who mapped the distribution of bones so mine could be studied in comparison. My blood donor was a stranger.

There are days when I feel guilty for being loved.
For being given.

What a cruelty, to deny ourselves this.

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reblog I try to make life better for people I won’t ever know I don’t always succeed but I don’t take it for granted beautiful and thoughtful piece :)

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