Age

I was reading a random book bought from an old book store and suddenly realized that the book was actually 10 years older than me. How beautiful! Every tissue of it must be at least 10 years older than my physical body. But wait, May be that is not true. It is because both the book and I are of same organic compounds containing Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and some other minor elements. These elements existed in almost the same quantity and proportion ever since the formation of the earth . We both have merely borrowed these elements in different combinations and physical structures where I ended up with consciousness. So strictly speaking, there is no question of something being older than another in our world. And this fact leads me to a tentative guess that some of the elements in my physical body(and yours and everybody's) might actually have been a part of some other conscious being (human or any other creature) in the endless cycles of births and deaths since the manifestation of the consciousness on our earth. This is even more beautiful!