Do you know that you are a part of a Caecer,cleopatra or Shakespeare?

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We are made of atoms, a temporary collection of assorted atoms. These atoms were not created for our exclusive use, and will not disappear from the universe with our inevitable demise. All atoms are continuously re-cycled in the universe. The atoms that currently form you will have all come from something else. Some may have previously been in the rocks of Mount Everest, or perhaps they were sea water, a giant redwood tree, oxygen in the atmosphere, or the sand in the beach. Some of your atoms will previously have been part of another person many years ago, and after you given enough decades to fully re-circulate, will again form part of someone else, and also something else. All over the planet, since it was created, atoms have been busily re-cycling from one form to another; at times being part of inanimate objects and other times being part of a living thing, be it plant or animal or human. For example, that some of the atoms incorporated into your body, possibly as many as a billion, once were part of Plato, Socrates, Cleopatra, a Pharaoh or Julius Caesar. So how does it feel to be a part of these people, and you have inhaled atoms that were once also inhaled by them?