After watching so many movies, it often seems the moral of the story is-" The perfect person for you is out there!". Before I even get the chance to ask "where?", The movie says "Somewhere- you just have to find them" and then promises a happily ever after. Every time my friends or me have tried to find the perfect one, we have run into conflicts. It seems as though the perfect one doesn't exist for us.
In the movies, though, the "perfect love" is someone you connect with perfectly, with no differences in morals or ideas, only misunderstandings that once they are resolved, lead to the perfect love story ending.
But what if you do have a conflict or a disagreement with your girlfriend/boyfriend, not a simple misunderstanding? What if it means he/she isn't for you? What if he/she isn't the perfect one? So far, I haven't found her, and I'm starting to get the feeling I'm on a wild goose chase, or more so, me and almost everyone else is taking true love the wrong way.
What if, just maybe, there is no perfect match? What if, just maybe, true love isn't perfect? What if, just maybe, true love takes work to flourish the differences with your lover in addition your similarities?If mankind isn't perfect, how can love be? I may never find a perfect love, but at least I will find one that can love me as we work together to bypass and flourish in our differences as our love grows.
P.S.- no examples are used to "prove" this, due to the fact that information about dating relationships are.... intimate and disrespectful to post onto the web for all to see.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Beautiful Brutality
For the first time I can recall, I have found something relatively disgusting sprisingly beautiful. I discovered gruesome yet goergous act of nature on Thursday, September 22 while I was walking to my house. I was strolling along the sidewalk, when I noticed odd, dark blotch moving on the pavement of the sidewalk. Curious, I bent down to see it was. To my surprize, the "blotch" was a spider and a black, ant- like insect with wings having what looked to be a wrestling match. Not soon after viewing this, though, the little insect flew away as the spider lay motionless. I thought it was strange that an insect capable of bringing down a spider wouldn't carry it off to eat it, until I remembered about parasitoid wasps.
Parasitoid wasps are different than most other predators- they paralize their prey(permanatly or temporarily depending on the species) so they can lay their eggs on or in the host invertebrate, which the larvae feed upon until they are ready to pupate into the next generation. I quickly slid the spider onto a piece of paper I had handy, and took it to my house. It is still at my house, sitting in a plastic container with fork-punctured plastic wrap to provide a ventating ceiling. Impatient to see the larvae when it emerged and pupated, I began researching on parasitoid wasps. There are two types of Parasitoid wasps- the Koinoboints, which have only a few/one species it preys upon(ex. video of a Koinoboint ), while the second type, Idioboints, have many species they prey upon. Now if you watch the video you may think "EEEWWW how is this POSSIBLY thought of as beautiful?". It is not the whole larvae-eating and emerging from it's victim that is beautiful. That is utterly disgusting. What I find beautiful is how effective these wasps are and the unique way they take care of their young. Not only do they take care of their young effectively, but they also protect some plants that produce a 'perfume' whenever they are being eaten upon by worms, aphids, and other pests. That's all i got for now, but you can read up more info from (http://chrisraper.org.uk/Html/parasitica.htm#Koinobionts) or by searching under parasitoid wasps on the National Geographic web page.
P.S.The plant genes that key for parasitoid wasps to come and "infect" pests are being researched so they may be able to be put into comon food plants (corn, wheat, exc.) so that farmers will have a reduced need to use pesticides.
Parasitoid wasps are different than most other predators- they paralize their prey(permanatly or temporarily depending on the species) so they can lay their eggs on or in the host invertebrate, which the larvae feed upon until they are ready to pupate into the next generation. I quickly slid the spider onto a piece of paper I had handy, and took it to my house. It is still at my house, sitting in a plastic container with fork-punctured plastic wrap to provide a ventating ceiling. Impatient to see the larvae when it emerged and pupated, I began researching on parasitoid wasps. There are two types of Parasitoid wasps- the Koinoboints, which have only a few/one species it preys upon(ex. video of a Koinoboint ), while the second type, Idioboints, have many species they prey upon. Now if you watch the video you may think "EEEWWW how is this POSSIBLY thought of as beautiful?". It is not the whole larvae-eating and emerging from it's victim that is beautiful. That is utterly disgusting. What I find beautiful is how effective these wasps are and the unique way they take care of their young. Not only do they take care of their young effectively, but they also protect some plants that produce a 'perfume' whenever they are being eaten upon by worms, aphids, and other pests. That's all i got for now, but you can read up more info from (http://chrisraper.org.uk/Html/parasitica.htm#Koinobionts) or by searching under parasitoid wasps on the National Geographic web page.
P.S.The plant genes that key for parasitoid wasps to come and "infect" pests are being researched so they may be able to be put into comon food plants (corn, wheat, exc.) so that farmers will have a reduced need to use pesticides.
Real Life Frogger
It has been a long time since I played the old Frogger game, where you have to get a little frog across a street and a river to go to the other side. I never really liked the game, because i would always get smushed by a big semi or die in the who-knows-what infested water.Even though frogs in real life do face dangerous encounters with humans and nature itself, it definitly takes many forms they are rarely the ones depicted in the Frogger video game.
During this last summer, me and my neighbor would often go out fishing. Since I had recently moved to my new house, and I was only an ameteur fisherman, I often got instruction from him. Of all of the bait he used to catch big fish like bass, he learned that leapord frogs work the best. Often we spent more time hunting frogs than actually catching fish. Sometimes we would bait the wee anphibian so we could catch the hulking bull frogs that seemed to eat anything that moved and happened to be smaller than them. Sometimes, we wouldn't catch any fish with the frogs, but the frog would still end up dead from being cast time after time out onto the water. With all the frogs in the nearby pond, I found it surprizing that there is a mass-killing of anphibians happening around the world. A fungus called chytrid has been infecting and seen growing on dead or dying frogs, toads, and salamanders. Some anphibians have bacteria growing on their skin that make them resistant to this fatal frog fungus, but most of our slippy, slimy pals don't have these bacteria(nationalgeographic.com). On a lighter note, many new species or 'extinct' species of anphibious animals have been found throughout the world, and an official global 'hunt' for more has been announced(nationalgeographic.com). I can't wait to see all the new animals discovered in the next coming year :-D
During this last summer, me and my neighbor would often go out fishing. Since I had recently moved to my new house, and I was only an ameteur fisherman, I often got instruction from him. Of all of the bait he used to catch big fish like bass, he learned that leapord frogs work the best. Often we spent more time hunting frogs than actually catching fish. Sometimes we would bait the wee anphibian so we could catch the hulking bull frogs that seemed to eat anything that moved and happened to be smaller than them. Sometimes, we wouldn't catch any fish with the frogs, but the frog would still end up dead from being cast time after time out onto the water. With all the frogs in the nearby pond, I found it surprizing that there is a mass-killing of anphibians happening around the world. A fungus called chytrid has been infecting and seen growing on dead or dying frogs, toads, and salamanders. Some anphibians have bacteria growing on their skin that make them resistant to this fatal frog fungus, but most of our slippy, slimy pals don't have these bacteria(nationalgeographic.com). On a lighter note, many new species or 'extinct' species of anphibious animals have been found throughout the world, and an official global 'hunt' for more has been announced(nationalgeographic.com). I can't wait to see all the new animals discovered in the next coming year :-D
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