On Intelligent life and the Hidden Me

The universe is a big place. Actually to call it the universe in itself is wrong, I should say the 'observable universe', because there is probably a lot more too it then we can currently comprehend. Somewhere in this ever expanding cosmos is a galaxy called the 'Milky Way'. I've always loved that name, it is so fitting when you look at images of it, like a big milky swirl in an infinite darkness. Off all of the names we could have called our galaxy, we choose 'Milky Way', something strangely nice about it. Milk is such an average thing to us, galaxies are something we can only begin to start to understand... It's difficult to explain but I just think its quite nice. Actually in the big picture milk is probably more amazing than galaxies. Theres only one place we know of with milk, and only one way of getting it. Unless there's a giant milk planet somewhere, or another planet containing carbon based organisms that produce milk as a nutritious food source for their young. You know, I just realised that the Milky way is my background as well. Either that or another pinwheel galaxy. 

Most people I know think that there must be some other form of life somewhere else. It's one of the big questions... 'Are we alone?' The truth is I hope not. As a Star Wars fanatic, I honestly hope that in the future somewhere we are fully ingrained in a Galactic empire and we would have harnessed the force. That's wishful thinking, but I live in hope.

It's not that I'm dying to meet some alien though, I think it would be fascinating to see how life evolved in another, distant planet. As a zoologist that has to be the ultimate, but I'm more than satisfied with the abundance of life on this planet we call Earth. Some people might wonder why it is that I am so obsessed with animals. The truth is I don't know. My family isn't particularly interested in animals other than my Canadian side which enjoy hunting and killing them. I just think that life is the most amazing thing in the entire universe, and to study the things that live is a fantastic pleasure and an honour. They shouldn't be killed for sport, thats one thing that I hate. I'm never going to be a vegetarian though, animals are supposed to be eaten. We evolved to eat meat, going against that is not natural. Vegetarians are freaks, not in a horrible way though...

I hope you ate that Elk Darren.

It's very interesting to me that my Dad was the only member of his family that didn't partake in hunting of any kind. Even my Mum, who usually isn't usually one to bring up any good traits my Dad might have, admits that with this, he was unusually good. He was in the Canadian army as well, so I doubt he'd have much trouble killing a person (not that the Canadian army do much of that...) but animals he didn't go for.

I don't really know what good traits I have. Maybe someone could tell me, maybe I don't have any outstanding traits at all. If I'm completely honest I've only fully opened up to two people in the entire world, and one of them is my Uncle. See, I said I'd make the next entry more personal. I don't really open up very well. I'm the same person around everyone, but I adapt my personality to suit the person I'm talking to. Kind of like a Chameleon which changes its skin colour to suit its environment. It's not just camouflage that changes the Chameleons colour though, its hormone levels and moods as well. My moods don't affect how I talk to people, unless its the people very close to me like my Uncle.

I have a lot of things that I don't tell anyone about. I'll tell everyone one now though... I have been writing a book on and off for the last two years. I don't know why I find it hard to tell people things like that, maybe its because I don't want anyone to read it. To this day, I'm the only one that is allowed to. 

So now you know more about me. Great. This wasn't the greatest of entries to be honest but I'm tired and I just witnessed the best game of football I've ever seen.

Another blog, another song. This one in tribute to a great man who died the other day.