What an octopus can teach us

Doug 2022-03-22 09:02:19

I watched a documentary in my spare time during my senior year of high school, and I revisited it in the past two days. Miss Octopus is no longer the fear of the unknown creature in our cognition, I am amazed at the magic of nature, the photographer used the camera to record her short but legendary life, how she used wisdom time and time again She saved her life from danger, and the deep, out-of-species friendship she forged with the photographer during those 400 days, and eventually she was exhausted after laying her eggs and eventually died caring for them. Her body is transformed into nutrients in this endless ocean, and a tree with a height of 100 feet will eventually lose its leaves and return to its roots. After watching this documentary, I felt like I had a brief love affair with this amazing creature, and even though it was short-lived, there was still a lingering scent. Miss Octopus also showed to the camera the most fundamental energy that maintains the world - love, which is love in a broad sense. This kind of love taught me to love my life. Octopus's life is lonely, and their parents died. Taking care of their offspring, octopuses can only teach themselves how to survive in this boundless ocean. Our two years are their whole lives. At the end of their lives, do they expect their offspring to break out and take their parents engraved in their genes Wisdom, pass on this gift, and eventually dust to dust, dust to dust. Although short-lived, it is dazzling enough.

This documentary is suitable for watching when you have no plans for the future, are confused or even have some anxiety. After reading it, in addition to being touched, you will find that your anxiety and depression may have been deeply buried under the dark reef, or dissipated in the kelp forest on the bottom of the sea long ago.

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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.