Sometimes I think about my fingerprints. They're completely unique, you know? They've left patterns across every surface I've touched, traces of me left wherever I go. No one person has the same set of fingerprints. Not even identical twins. DNA 100% identical and yet their fingerprints still differ.
Did you know that tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints?
I own a lot of things. For someone whose home is so small, I own a lot of things. And my fingerprints are on all of them.
Scientists aren't even sure why we have fingerprints. Some posit it's an evolutionary advantage; a way to help us grip when our hands are wet. Or maybe we have them to better our touch perception. Like taste buds on our hands. Maybe the creator just wanted to give us a way to tell one another apart in a world gone blind.
They're beautiful. If you look at your hands, study the sworls--the pins and curls. It's like a spiral galaxy. Right on your fingertips.
Nature has a way of doing that. Mimicking itself. Patterns in the body showing up in the stars.
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