I Love Him

I won’t claim that I already know him that much. In fact, I think I know very little about him yet. This fact, however, makes me love and trust him more every time I discover new things about him.

I’m grateful he found and tried to help me while I was alone- too afraid to take a step and walk any further in my journey. At first, I was too afraid and reluctant to accept his hand. But I’m grateful to have given myself a chance to be held once again in somebody else’s hands. He shared his strength to me when I was in the lowest of my trough. And I think I have been a parasite trying to get strength from him the past few weeks. Such kind of relationship existed between us without me noticing that I’m beginning to be more and more dependent on him each day that past. I just realize that parasitism won’t work long enough in a relationship. It might work in the premature stage while the one is given the chance to gather strength from the other. However, they should not get stuck to such kind of relationship. I think mutual understanding of each other’s role to make a relationship work is very essential. I believe mutualism works when both develop a pattern of “give-and-take” practice. This is why I’m also trying to help him in any way I can. Nobody’s strong enough and I know he also has his own chop of weaknesses.

I loved him for being such a strong person and I will continue to love him with all his weaknesses. He might call for his strength back in time and hopefully I could share mine when that time comes.

Penguin

Penguins exist only in my imagination.

I’ve came across several articles about such creatures before yet I never really paid much attention on them. It’s not that I did not believe on them. They just didn’t catch my interest as I did when I first learned about their admirable behaviors on building their family. Once a penguin has chosen his partner among thousands, he stays loyal to his mate. Penguin couples have their ways of recording their partner’s voice so that they could recognize each other among thousands. It’s kind of having a code that only both of them know. J This is the reason why polygamy was never an issue for them.

After the female penguin has given birth, she leaves the egg to the male. She has to endure the harsh winds to go back to the sea to replenish her energy after giving birth. She travels through the ice miles away to feed herself and store food for her chick at the same time. For the mean time, the male penguin has to keep the egg warm in his so-called feathery pocket just above his feet. He has to maintain a constant temperature of 35o C to keep the egg from freezing. The male actually hatches the egg while the female is gathering food. All of this happens for about 120 days. By then, the female must have already gathered enough strength and food to go back and take charge on rearing their young. If the female further delays her coming back, she might find her partner and their young freezing and starving to death.

I was really amazed how such a relationship exists between creatures that I thought exist only in my imagination. I think they’re wonderful.