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“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.

Your first parent was a star.”

Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (via thewordslam)
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martinfreeman:

i know most people with depression (and likely other mental illnesses) who have been to therapists are already familiar with this concept but i just want to bring it up as something that i have personally found helpful and want to recommend to others

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