I am often overtaken by my love for you. I think of your hands on my waist or lips on my shoulder and my heart swells, nearly bursting my chest.Â
How did you do this? How did you become so wonderful and stroll into my life...slowly changing all the horrible things in me and raising me to a better woman.Â
Carpenter ants of the Brazilian rain forest have it rough. When one of these insects gets infected by a certain fungus, it turns into a so-called âzombie antâ and is no longer in control of its actions.
Science wasnât actually certain how fungi like cordyceps âhijackedâ their hostâs behavior, and we always kind of assumed it was causing some relatively simplistic damage to the brain, but now it seems the truth is much more like all the dramatized versions of it in sci-fi horror.
These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the hostâs tissues all throughout their body, actually seem to send signals to the hostâs muscles and even alter the hostâs genes with their own.
And all the while, it turns out THE BRAIN ISNâT TAKEN OVER AT ALL.
These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the hostâs brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didnât. People werenât meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
you treat them like theyÂ
have a heart like yours
but not everyone can be as
soft and as tender
you donât see the
person they are
you see the person
they have the potential to be
you give and give till
they pull everything out of you
and leave you empty.
Four dudes put baby goat on pedastle, feed him snacks and sing to him about himself. I think this is the best and most pure thing I have ever witnessed