A closer look
Humans shed roughly forty pounds of dead skin cells over the course of their lives, meaning a significant portion of the dust in your home is quite literally just pieces of your past self. every single hour, your body casually discards millions of these microscopic flakes, raining them down onto your keyboards, mattresses, and expensive velvet couches. we spend absolute fortunes on anti-aging serums and exfoliating scrubs, desperately trying to keep our outer layers fresh, while our biology is perfectly happy turning us into a walking blizzard of human debris. it completely ruins the romantic ambiance of a sunlit room when you realize those beautiful, floating motes caught in the light are just the discarded husks of your roommates and pets. you are shedding your external packaging like a highly inefficient snake, leaving a trail of biological breadcrumbs everywhere you go so that dust mites never have to worry about finding their next meal!
