Just a thought that occurred to me the other day while in a local town. Nothing original about it. The streets were full of people walking up and down beside me. A thought cropped up in my mind. It seemed strange to be reminded that all of us have bodies that are entirely composed of bits and pieces, of many compounds and chemicals that derive from the physical stuff of the earth with its origin going back billions of years into the age of the first stars and before them just hydrogen and that somehow these bits and pieces had come together and coalesced into odd moving shapes with arms, legs, ears and eyes and, furthermore, that somehow these conglomerations of matter had become conscious of their surroundings and had thoughts like the one I was now experiencing.
How very strange indeed!
Consciousness and Other Matters 