AphroditeMSC
~Day Dreamer~
I don't know about you, but I'm worried about the way the world is going.
I don't think the Cherry Blossoms bloomed this year. I know how that sounds - like a senile old woman telling you the nurses are stealing her biscuits - but I honestly don't think they did. Now that worries me. For as long as I can remember, the Cherry Blossom has been my favorite tree, and my neighbourhood is full of them (one outside every house). So if they did bloom this year, I definitely would have stopped to enjoy them. I don't think the Cherry Blossoms bloomed. I know, I'm being repetetive, but if I can't impress upon you the magnitude of something so small...even being repetetive isn't going to help you. Stop reading now.
For those of you who keep reading:
For the last two years, here in Ireland, we've had our Summer for about two weeks in May/June. That was it, apart from the odd warm day without sunshine. 'Hey, it's Ireland', I hear you say, 'It always rains there!'. And so it does. But we usually have more of a Summer than that! Since I was a child, I can remember adults saying - and even said it myself for a few years - 'when the kids go back to school, the sun'll be splitting the trees!'.
But for the last two years..it hasn't been.
It used to stay a nice twilight-bright until eleven pm, or later. But this year it was dark by ten. That's a break from the norm.
The Polar ice-caps are melting - and apart from worrying about a flood, have you taken note of the plight of the Polar Bears? This majestic animal is dying out from starvation and being stranded on patches of rapidly melting ice, because the frozen plains of its homeland are freezing weeks after they should have.
Meanwhile there are 'mad scientists' trying to recreate Mammoths by introducing their D.N.A. into elephants because they share 99.4% of their D.N.A. structure. Does anyone else think this would be a mistake? They were pre-historic animals that lived through the last ice-age and beyond, that died out - probably for a very good reason, too! - and served their usefullness to the world. Apart from being EXTINCT, they were a totally wild, ferocious animal with unlimited potential in the savage stakes. Do they really think that if they re-introduce them into modern society through modern, tamed elephants that they could be anything but what they were? Sometimes instinct wins out over breeding.
There are animals long thought extinct making a reappearance amongst the world. Like the pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates - 80 years after it was thought to have become extinct - on a mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
And as if previously mentioned 'mad scientists' aren't crazy enough...there are some so-called scientists who claim they can make immortals. Now this, would be a really bad idea. Imagine the world if people couldn't die...
Apart from the population having absolutely NO FEAR of anything, I believe they would turn the world inside-out in the process. Testing limits and such. And then, dear reader, there is the simple-but-often-over-looked-tidbit ---the world would be over run with humans and animals. Life is a cycle of birth and death, making way for new birth and death. If there was just birth, and birth, well then where would we be?
Perhaps the more natural problems in the world in the last decade - tsunamis, earthquakes, super-storms and such - are simply a warning by whatever Higher Power there may be...
Would you like to be God?
The 'mad scientists' would!
I don't think the Cherry Blossoms bloomed this year. I know how that sounds - like a senile old woman telling you the nurses are stealing her biscuits - but I honestly don't think they did. Now that worries me. For as long as I can remember, the Cherry Blossom has been my favorite tree, and my neighbourhood is full of them (one outside every house). So if they did bloom this year, I definitely would have stopped to enjoy them. I don't think the Cherry Blossoms bloomed. I know, I'm being repetetive, but if I can't impress upon you the magnitude of something so small...even being repetetive isn't going to help you. Stop reading now.
For those of you who keep reading:
For the last two years, here in Ireland, we've had our Summer for about two weeks in May/June. That was it, apart from the odd warm day without sunshine. 'Hey, it's Ireland', I hear you say, 'It always rains there!'. And so it does. But we usually have more of a Summer than that! Since I was a child, I can remember adults saying - and even said it myself for a few years - 'when the kids go back to school, the sun'll be splitting the trees!'.
But for the last two years..it hasn't been.
It used to stay a nice twilight-bright until eleven pm, or later. But this year it was dark by ten. That's a break from the norm.
The Polar ice-caps are melting - and apart from worrying about a flood, have you taken note of the plight of the Polar Bears? This majestic animal is dying out from starvation and being stranded on patches of rapidly melting ice, because the frozen plains of its homeland are freezing weeks after they should have.
Meanwhile there are 'mad scientists' trying to recreate Mammoths by introducing their D.N.A. into elephants because they share 99.4% of their D.N.A. structure. Does anyone else think this would be a mistake? They were pre-historic animals that lived through the last ice-age and beyond, that died out - probably for a very good reason, too! - and served their usefullness to the world. Apart from being EXTINCT, they were a totally wild, ferocious animal with unlimited potential in the savage stakes. Do they really think that if they re-introduce them into modern society through modern, tamed elephants that they could be anything but what they were? Sometimes instinct wins out over breeding.
There are animals long thought extinct making a reappearance amongst the world. Like the pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates - 80 years after it was thought to have become extinct - on a mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
And as if previously mentioned 'mad scientists' aren't crazy enough...there are some so-called scientists who claim they can make immortals. Now this, would be a really bad idea. Imagine the world if people couldn't die...
Apart from the population having absolutely NO FEAR of anything, I believe they would turn the world inside-out in the process. Testing limits and such. And then, dear reader, there is the simple-but-often-over-looked-tidbit ---the world would be over run with humans and animals. Life is a cycle of birth and death, making way for new birth and death. If there was just birth, and birth, well then where would we be?
Perhaps the more natural problems in the world in the last decade - tsunamis, earthquakes, super-storms and such - are simply a warning by whatever Higher Power there may be...
Would you like to be God?
The 'mad scientists' would!
