We do not live the points of life, live the ups and downs

Tara 2022-04-23 07:03:25

"My Octopus Teacher" is translated as "My Octopus Teacher". It tells that Craig Foster, who lives in a log cabin by the sea in South Africa, has been hesitant for a long time in his life. He decided to enter this familiar and unfamiliar sea area. Create a new connection with life and nature.

Craig Foster met an octopus in the sea, and the contact between each other's limbs made him feel the connection between octopuses and humans for the first time. The connection of life allows Craig to continue to witness the life of this octopus. Predation, predation, injury, recovery, play, birth of new life, and death. This series of trajectories has allowed Craig to be healed and made him cry, but It also made him stronger.

When I saw this octopus being hunted and injured by a shark, it hid in its own cave, its body turned white and its eyes were slightly open, I thought that was the end of its life, but after seeing it a few days later, it regrew its tentacles and returned to the ground. In this competition of creatures, I even defeated sharks and played with some small fish.

There are so many tears in my eyes. Whether it’s an octopus or a human being, naturally they can’t protect you. There is no point system or game mechanism in the world that can keep you from dying, undefeated or coming back. Every creature ultimately relies on ( ego) Armed with will and wisdom, you cannot live by any kind of inaction.

Even every relaxed posture needs the support of huge strength inside.

But even though you have temporarily become a warrior of nature, you cannot overcome death. When an octopus conceives a new life, it begins to calculate the time of its own death. After completing the inheritance of life, it is so weak that it can be eaten by small fish, and finally the remains of its body are eaten by sharks.

This is frustrating and makes people feel that the life of an octopus is crumbling, but I think it is extremely powerful. In fact, we don't have to be obsessed with the points of life, we just live up and down.

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  • Craig Foster: What she taught me was to feel... that you're part of this place, not a visitor. That's a huge difference.

  • [first lines]

    Craig Foster: A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien. But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them, you realize that we're very similar in a lot of ways.