Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Sea Horses are Predators and long noses can be beautiful

A blog from my recent Radio Bristol Thought for the day

                I am of the opinion that everyone has a particular gift, something that makes them special. I discovered recently that in the underwater world of sea horses this is also the case.  I think we’d all agree that sea horses are fairly odd looking creatures.. and despite living in the sea, they look like pretty poor swimmers. However scientists have recently discovered that despite looking slow and awkward they are actually ferocious and ingenious predators.  Well ferocious if you are an extremely small crustacean! The weird thing is these crustaceans, or dinner, as the Sea Horses like to call them, are incredibly fast swimmers. If humans could move like they do, we could swim at 2,000mph, and yet these fast food escape artists are no match for the Sea Horse. Apparently it is all down to those strange noses, they are simply perfectly designed. They allow the Sea Horse to creep up on the crustaceans causing no ripples or warning signals, before they pounce.

                Watching Rebecca Adlington discuss with Miss Universe Amy Willerton  aspects of female beauty I am led to a similar conclusion; everyone has beauty in their own particular way. Coming from a family with long noses, who says that long noses aren’t beautiful and actually who really cares, when attitudes and actions and kind words are so much more beautiful than simply an hourglass figure or perfect skin. So my thought for today is, look more carefully at the people around you and watch out for they are all surely amazing and potentially beautiful people. Who knows once we start appreciating all the beauty around us we may even get a little better at realising the beauty we have within us. God bless

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