Wednesday, 12 February 2014

The Way I See It


Biology this year has been a truly unique experience and for it I count my blessings. Count them one by one, as they come flying in through the window fluttering then falling towards my feet. My eyes are not mine anymore but something filled with new wonder and knowledge and once mundane sights do not go unnoticed now. Such as when I stand to fill a glass of water from my fridge I cannot help but look at the piece of "Irish Moss"  sitting in the pot. And it always looks so dry and I remember "swimming sperm" and I pour that poor Irish man some water.

                Other times I think of the angler fish and other terrifying deep sea creature and I wonder what I would see if I could see what I`m not seeing! If I could only take in all the complex layers of horrors that lie just beyond my range of sight. I would be terrified! I would much rather face anything from space before I find out what at the bottom of our own ocean. And I`m not sure what I is about Jellyfish but I`ve become oddly mesmerized by them this semester and now I know that if there is ever a thin, semantic line that lies between beautiful and weird, that line would be covered in Jellyfish.

                I don’t see pollen anymore, I see flying sperm. And the small craft cones now suddenly look very feminine with lips and sweet voices. I would have never thought the very things I covered in glitter at the age of 8 would be female. I look at plants with a new found wonder, they`re deadly like much of the world but beautiful like everything else as well. And everything can be questioned. Be curious and ask questions. Even if you lie in bed one day and forget all that’s true in the world. Even if the stars look like mysterious lights overhead while you pretend to sleep and even if you`ve convinced yourself that the moon is just a collective hallucination shared by millions. Ask questions. Because when all is said and done you may choose to not be certain of anything at all and if that’s the case then you just have to be passionately curious about the world around you.

                I look at the world with awe. It`s beautiful and it`s beauty radiates everywhere. And although we all know the inevitable and that somewhere over the rainbow is not a pot of gold but the cold empty void of space, we choose to see its beauty instead of the vast and indifference of space. Because we are immeasurably small in this vast cosmic wonder, but this biology class has made me curious, ask questions, and follow my heart. Because in the end, when it comes to this Earth and all its inhabitants I have to agree with a poet I know when he says that you have to care about the world, because it doesn`t care about you.
~Jessica Thandi (Biology 11 Mrs. Phillips 2013-2014 Semester 1)

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