The complex atoms that make up you and me were born out of the hearts of exploding dying stars billions of years ago. Those atoms drifted, floated and danced across the universe, onto our planet where they were again moved, mixed and rearranged to make this walking talking meat skeleton powered by electricity.

I've seen an animation about this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NBVCIgfyciA

With a tough guy tattoo like that, you just know he used to be a decorative stone in a fountain or some shit.

Brussels toynbee tile.

No. That used to be flowing magma.

Had I seen this two weeks ago when passing through, I may have hunted it down.

That's actually a mildly depressing way to put it. Reduced from a majestic, imposing, mass to something humans tread on without a second thought.

Driving around North Wales 😢

Then it took a pickaxe to the knee

Thanks. It'd nice to provide the location, lat/lon or OpenStreetMap link.

....and I used to be good, really good.
Life fucks everybody, you aren't special.