You have twice the autonomy the giraffes and tigers do

I find it funny how often in life, the trivial things impress the greatest sense of magnitude upon me... just last night as I sat in psych class seeping in information about the brain I realized how very beautiful and complex life really is. Not that it’s so complex in the sense of everyday living, but in the autonomic sense... the things we don’t realize are going on inside and around us at every given moment. The realization of how many reactions and actions it takes for us to simply see something. The spectrums of light we differentiate as colours and depths, the sounds we hear, sounds are really no more than a displacement of air causing a vibration that our brain reads and interprets as a sense. It is so beautiful to think of the complexity we take for granted everyday. The gift we have in our senses alone, the gift we have in seeing, feeling, smelling, and hearing it is mind blowing to me. Everything all simultaneously combining to create a rich sensory experience, we forget to be so very much in awe of our bodies and our creator for giving us such an immense gift. When I think about it the beauty of what we can comprehend with all of our senses I am overcome. It leads me to feel that everything for the wonder of being able to take it in at all is in fact something beautiful form the mundane to the exquisite it is all beautiful in its own way. Seriously! The concept that we can perceive texture and line and colour of our surroundings, and the knowledge that we can smell the heat of a computer, the perfume on someone’s shirt, or even the scent of the wood in a pencil, how can it not just fill you with great fullness at the gift of live. Everything combines to create layers of beauty, and when you think about it… really think about it, that makes life the amazing thing that it is. Even the complexity of a kiss, all of the things you take in at once, the smell of the person near you the sound of their breath the graze of each other’s lips. All of these things in a scientific sense are a miracle in and of themselves. The amount of information your body processes to come up with just the smell of the other person alone is overwhelming. The neurons firing and sending signals, all of the things in your brain working, moving information and chemicals from point A to point B… It inspires me. It proves to me that life is more than just chance and that there must be a higher power, there has to be a great designer of life, one who wants us if nothing else to see the beauty in which we were made and realize that it is good. The sheer wonder of our very existence in the first place is enough to make you question it all. We are so consumed with the silly standards for what we call beautiful that we don’t even realize that our very existence is beautiful, more than just visually beautiful. It is complexly, and intricately, and profoundly beautiful and for that realization I am so very happy.