Earth is the perfect distance from the sun to nurture life. Whether divine or randomcircumstances, the sun warmed a little patch of water, and now you’re a walking, breathing, feeling form.
As Animalia, as Mammalia, you’ve long abandoned photosynthesis.
You are a predator. A vertebrate. A nomad. A consumer.
And still, you’re drawn to that sphere of glowing hydrogen and helium and metals. Maybe it is gravity. Maybe it is the production of nutrients through your skin, the ultraviolet radiation converting a cholesterol into vitamin D.
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