I'm not even the same person as who i was yesterday. Everytime my stream of consciousness stops and starts I am a new person built from the thousands of lives

I'm not even the same person as who i was yesterday. Everytime my stream of consciousness stops and starts I am a new person built from the thousands of lives that came before. This is not a saddening fact but an enlightening one. We all stand on the shoulders of those that came before us.