Assignment 21 - Claire Thompson

At this very moment, somewhere in the universe there is every person I've ever met, every stranger I've ever walked by, everyone I will never know, and ever person I've never met but will meet one day. Dead or alive, they're all out there somewhere. It's wild to imagine that every single person exists completely independent of me, of you, of everyone you know or ever will know, and everyone you will never know or see or come in contact with. There are hundreds and hundreds of people that you pass by every single day that you will never meet and you will never see again, but they still exist out there somewhere. And not just people, but animals and plants. There's supposedly far more insects in just about any square mile of land than there are people in the world. At that rate, there's probably more insects alive on the planet right now than people there have ever been in the past few thousand years. I mean right in your backyard, there might be an ant hill that has more loving creatures in it than the amount of people you will ever even know. That's wild. And that's all happening right now. And it will be happening tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and so on and so forth.