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Same Soup, Different Stir

This is me:

An illustration of a shelf of labelled containers: a large jar of oxygen (45 kg), a blue tub of carbon (13 kg), hydrogen (7 kg), nitrogen (2 kg), a tank of chlorine (120 g), and a row of small bottles of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium and magnesium.

45 kg of oxygen, 13 kg of carbon, 7 kg of hydrogen, 2 kg of nitrogen, 1.5 kg of calcium, 0.8 kg of phosphorus, and so on.

Actually, this atom soup could be any person under 70 kg who ever lived. Take a smaller scoop and it could be my dog, the mushrooms I ate today, an octopus, a crab, or a cactus. Take a bigger one and it could be a giraffe or a sequoia.

All living organisms share basically the same recipe. The atom disposition is the only thing that sets them apart.

So if you want to be a different animal, no need to wait for reincarnation. Just rearrange yourself.