The closer you look
Everyone has already said it all. Nothing left. All the bases covered.
Oops just thought of something different. When I was working prisons I developed the basic mind-set that we are all "just doing-time on this planet". (A bit negative)
But my next older brother was into biology and constantly studying some insect or reptile or small animal, that was going through some phase of it's existence. Caterpillars that become cocoons then butterflies are easy. They start out eating leaves of the plant they will eventually help pollinate, carrying it's DNA to far away places.
Then there was a bird that lived only around it's oak tree. It nested there, raised offspring there, and buried it's acorns some distance around it. It remembered where the acorns were for food, most of the time. Then eventually some other animal or bird caught it, and all the acorns buried at that time could grow. (Or the winter, or old age) end result is the same, buried acorns grow better than those that just fall on the surface. The insects on the surface turn the leaves and acorns back into topsoil really fast.
But that is my brothers area. I would rather read about plate tectonic movements of the earth. The short answer is that the Atlantic is getting bigger and the Pacific is getting smaller. Mountains are pushed up and then the weather erodes them down into the valleys as topsoil.
When you walk through a field of flowers and get pollen on your pants, and brush it off further away you are a pollinator. Build a stone house and dig a garden and you are helping break down rocks into topsoil.
In science nothing is ever wasted, everything is recycled. In spite of our efforts to have the most sanitary existence and strongest casket - all the atoms in our bodies will be recycled at some point. You cannot breathe in and breathe out without the plants being happy to have that carbon dioxide you just exhaled. They convert it, and soil atoms, into carbohydrates for rabbits and chickens, or for bugs for chickens, and everyone is happy.
And when you get depressed go to a bingo hall were most of the people are too old to bowl. Recycle some coffee and doughnuts.
Go to the range. Remember when the powder in your cartridges explodes nothing is wasted. Every atom of the gunpowder comes out the barrel as some other gas.
Not just every hair on your head is counted -- no, every atom in your body has existed for billions of years and has been recycled too many times for us mortals to count.
Are our friends and relatives waiting. Yes, science has proven that nothing is ever wasted. And the physics of the universe has all the time in the world.
