By Emeka Chiaghanam
Humans are not just skin and bones.
We are cathedrals of complexity,
stitched in silence and pumping with poetry.
A
soul in scaffolding. A universe in motion, held together by breath, blood,
and unspoken mathematics.
Let’s crack open the shell of what we think we are, and
stare, wide-eyed, at the numbers inside.
37.2 Trillion Cells
You are not one. You are 37.2 trillion.
That’s how many cells work in quiet orchestration to keep you alive.
Each one a factory. A servant. A soldier.
Every minute, your body replaces 300
million of them without you noticing.
You are born again every second.
100,000 Heartbeats a Day
Your heart, the unthanked drummer, beats about 100,000 times every 24 hours.
That’s 35 million beats a year.
No weekends. No complaints.
It pumps 2,000 gallons of blood daily,
moving life through a body you barely appreciate.
That’s love, red, rhythmic, and relentless.
22,000 Breaths per Day
Inhale. Exhale. Again.
You breathe 22,000 times a day,
pulling in 11,000 liters of air.
Every breath carries oxygen to over 100
trillion cells, and still, you forget to thank your lungs.
Miracles hide in repetition.
86 Billion Neurons
Your brain is a jungle
of lightning.
With 86 billion neurons sparking
100 trillion synaptic connections,
your head holds more activity than the Milky Way has stars.
Every thought, dream, tear, and memory is an electric flicker.
You are fire in a fragile shell.
206 Bones & 600+ Muscles
Your skeleton isn’t just structure, it’s a marble temple in motion.
206 bones, engineered with eerie
perfection.
Paired with 600+ muscles, they
let you walk, dance, embrace, run, shiver.
And they do it all in rhythm.
You are both architecture and athlete.
60,000 Miles of Blood Vessels
If every vein, artery, and capillary in your body were laid
out in a line, they’d stretch over 60,000
miles, 2.5 times around the
Earth.
All of it humming with crimson motion.
You are a living roadmap.
3 Billion Letters of DNA
Inside every cell, there’s a code, 3 billion letters long that spells out you.
Hair, skin, instincts, fears, fingerprints.
Your entire existence written in four
chemicals—adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G) —folded
into 6 feet of DNA in every cell.
You are language wearing flesh.
One-Third of Your Life Is Sleep
You will sleep for over
230,000 hours in your lifetime.
That’s 33 years of dreams,
growth, and deep healing.
While you rest, your body repairs, sorts memories, resets hormones.
Even unconscious, you are not idle.
Eyes That See 10 Million Colours
Your eyes, those twin oracles can detect over 10 million shades of colour.
Each pupil dilates with emotion.
Each blink resets your view of the world.
They are not just for seeing.
They are for feeling the world in hues.
Made of 60% Water
You are not solid. You are fluid held in form.
Every cell swims in moisture.
Your brain? 73% water. Your heart? 75%.
Even your bones contain water.
You are a wave pretending to be a
person.
In Summary
You are not simple.
You are a cathedral of paradoxes,
soft but strong, fragile yet eternal, unconscious yet miraculous.
Every breath, beat, blink is a symphony of numbers you’ll never fully grasp.
And yet, here you are.
Walking. Thinking. Loving.
A miracle wrapped in muscle.
So the next time you curse your reflection, remember,
You are math that bleeds.
Science that feels.
A story told in atoms.
And that… is no small thing.
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