Good morning, that's a nice tnetennba!

y’all took off with the other post though it wasn’t finished 😭 very thankful for the love however

I remember my dad picking me up to sit on his shoulders (possibly one of the last times he did that because I was getting too big to hold there for long) so I could be close to it's flipper because he wanted to show me something. He had me hold up my arm parallel to the whale's, and explained that we had the same bones, pointing to it's scapula and humerus and radius and ulna and so on while poking the same bones in my skinny little arm, all they way down to the tips of my fingers and it's own.

And in that moment, I could suddenly see how the whale and I were the same animal, just stretched and shrunk into different proportions by nature. There was an entire exhibit with skeletons of different animals and we went through all of them, picking out the hands and faces of all of them on myself.

I had never felt such a profound connection to the world around me before as I realized on a visceral level that not only was I related to all these creatures, they were very literally my distant cousins, and that in a way, they were me from back then and I was them from now, and we all were others still from the future.

Every living thing on earth is your cousin. The most distantly related humans are your 50th cousins. Chimps are your several thousandth cousins. An octopus is your 25 millionth cousin. Trees are your billionth cousins. You and I are surrounded by family. And that makes me feel profoundly loved.

Reading a buzzfeed article w stories ppl have shared of alleged “unexplained mysteries they’ve personally experienced” bc I’m cringe and like. Just as a PSA. If something like this happens to you (where you clearly remember something physical & tangible that you KNOW existed but those around you tell you that the thing never actually existed) you need to go to a neurologist ASAP like immediately. If this story is true there is a high likelihood that this person has a brain tumor.

I read r/glitchinthematrix occasionally and cannot tell you how many ppl have posted things like this as though they’re supernatural occurrences completely unaware that what they are describing are actually textbook signs of cancer. One of the most disturbing ones I read was by a woman in college who swore up and down that the prior semester her dorm room had a bathroom connected to it but when she came back the bathroom wasn’t there and was connected to her suite mate’s room instead (yet everyone living in the suite w her maintained it was never connected to her room); someone urged her to go to a neurologist to get checked for a brain tumor and she followed up a month later confirming her cancer diagnosis. Ppl asked for updates after that but she never responded again.