People forget that only the pattern is new, that what makes us up, comprises us, has been here since the beginning of beginnings. The most elemental of it, the energy, and the matter: what of it is not as old as time itself? Even the fact that the atoms had not the form that they have now, that the first hydrogens needed be churned in the furnaces of the stars to cook into the heavier elements: almost all of everything that is around now was there at the first, big bang. Again, the pattern is the only thing that has changed, 8 protons instead of 1, neutrons added, electrons attracted to gird it. Quantum mechanics tells us that matter spontaneously comes out of the void, but for the most part, these particles almost as instantly disappear. What is here, you might as well say that it has always been here. In this regard, we are all as old as the moon, the earth, the sun and stars. In us are ancient energies, matter unchanged from before there was a world here at all.