Today is a very special day for me. It is very privileged to be born in spring, full of hope and life. It makes you have the courage to start again and renew yourself.
On the way to this date, it has been nothing but beautiful. I had a eureka moment not long ago about why I’m majoring in biology.
Biology is the study of life and everything in it screams symmetry. Even if sometimes it can get complex (especially when it comes to homo sapiens), it manages itself to accommodate infinite possibilities. What attracts me the most is that it is the study of nature. I love things as they are with no artificiality. I learnt a few things about interventions to stop a disease and maybe thats a good thing. But I found comfort in learning about how viruses and bacteria adapt to survive. How plants convert solar energy into carbohydrates through a series of complex reaction centres. I’ve also come to realize that nature is beautiful on the inside and the outside. You can see the DNA double helical structure that then depicts colourful petals on a flower, the shape of it and whether it floats in air or in water to then sow the seeds to bloom again in another place.
Just look around and see the tiniest details of the living things around you. You’ll find every single thing lies perfection.
On another note, I am really grateful to be alive and to be able to watch the orange skies and stars. Thankful to have friends that stay forever, even if they’re a handful but they’re all what matters. And family. They’re a bunch of people that understand your weird tantrums, crazy outbursts and outcry for help.
If life is to be appreciated like this through nature, then it is worth living. Every bit of it. But of course sometimes it forces you to look outwards and only then it will tell you that there are still so much to explore.
Thank you for reading.
~S.H.~
Your future biologist possibly a poet and aspiring astrophysicist.
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