YOU HAVE A BIT OF ALAXENDER, SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE IN YOUR BODY!

Is it ? yes.
Let us say, long long ago Socrates took a cupful of water from sea-shore and washed his face. Today, you took a cupful of water from the sea near your place and washed your face. Have you used any of the water molecules that Socrates used long back? You may think the chances are highly remote. But the scientific answer is really surprising.

A little calculation: you may skip
The total mass of earth's oceans = 10ˆ18 metric ton.
or 10ˆ24 grams.
Mass of one water molecule= 3*10ˆ-23 gm.
Hence No. of molecules in the ocean = 3* 10ˆ46

Mass of water in a cup = 250 gm.
No. of water molecules in a cup =8.3*10ˆ24
No. of cups of water in the oceans = No. of molecules in the oceans/ No. of molecules in a cup
= 3* 10ˆ46/8.3*10ˆ24
= 3.6 *10ˆ21 cups
Hence No. of cups in the oceans is far less than no. of water molecules in a cup. That means, if you draw out a cupful of water from a sea, .There is high chance that It might contain some molecules used by Socrates long back

= No. of molecules in a cup/No. of cups of water in the oceans
= 8.3*10ˆ24/3.6*10ˆ21
= 2300 molecules.

That is, "every cup, we draw out from the ocean may contain 2300 molecules that is once used by Socrates( in 400 BC)
By the same argument, we can conclude that each of us might expect to be made of a considerable number of the atoms and molecules that made up Socrates or Aristotle's body.
When one's life ends, he may turn into parts of a tree, flower, fruit, tooth of a child or nail of a beautiful girl.

As long as we are alive, we are constituted by collections of various molecules that we call as "I" with ego.

We know, water is recycled; cloud, rain, river, ocean and back to cloud. The oxygen-carbon-di-oxide cycle is maintained by the animals and the plants. There is food-fertilizer cycle again through animals and plants.

Recycling is the way of the nature. We should learn and adopt from it.
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