Look at yourself. Really look. The shine in your eyes started far from here.
My AI research agent pulled the receipts - NASA and ESA missions, plus a Science paper - and the pattern is blunt: most of Earth’s water rode in on dark, carbon-rich asteroids from the outer Solar System. Comets helped a little. Some water likely came baked into the rocks that built Earth. Adults are about two-thirds water. Newborns are closer to eighty.
Here’s the 60-second voiceover you can record:
Look at yourself. Really look. The shine in your eyes? It started far from here.
Before oceans, before weather, there was silence and ice - ancient, drifting, waiting in the outer reaches of our young Solar System.
Then the sky broke. Asteroids - dark, carbon-rich - carried that ice inward and struck a newborn Earth. Each impact a delivery. Each firestorm, a flood.
Steam to clouds. Clouds to rain. Rain to rivers. Rivers to salt and sea. The water never left. It just learned to move.
And now it moves through you. About two-thirds of you is water - tides in your blood, weather in your lungs, storms hidden in your cells.
You are a walking, breathing ocean - built from ancient space ice, still traveling, still remembering.
Micro-essay, no fluff: You’re not a machine. You’re a coastline that walks. The water in your glass is older than your family tree. It has been cloud, rain, river, sea, and stone. The lab clue is simple enough for bar talk: Earth’s water has a heavy-hydrogen fingerprint that matches certain asteroids better than most comets. Sample-return missions to Bennu and Ryugu found minerals that only form with liquid water - proof those rocks once ran wet. We can argue shares forever, but the arc holds: space delivered the water, Earth taught it to move, and now it moves you.
Takeaway: You are literally built from motion and cycles. Treat your body and your calendar like tides - steady, patient, returning. Hype burns out. Cycles win.
What would change in your work if you planned like an ocean instead of sprinting like a fire? 🌊