Hello! Long time no talk or in our case no write, no read! Oh how I have missed this voice in my head. I feel it’s most appropriate to share with you something that has recently come up for me and explains where I have been.
To start off this journey I would first like to share a story with you on my discovery that Orcas are NOT killer whales! In fact they aren’t even part of the whale family at all and are actually part of the dolphin family. These amazing marine mammals are actually WHALE killers. Umm that’s kind of a totally different meaning once you switch those two words around. The Orca has been known to kill seals, sharks (yes great whites), humans (watch Black Fish) and in some reported cases – moose swimming between islands. Now that is one bad ass whale killer!
So imagine my dismay to learn that most if not 99% of the people I tell this to have no idea that Oracs are not actually whales! Which I’m actually pretty shocked to know I have some super-secret weird knowledge on anything. Is this how smart people feel?? What actually shocks me the most is how it seems that most of these unknowing people have no issue with it? When I found out it rocked my world! How could I have been taught all these years that Shamu is not a Killer whale but actually the predator of the whales? How could people just act like they were not lied to about these creatures that we use a child transportation modules around an amusement park (look it up, it was a thing) dedicated to the belief that these are part of the family that in reality they kill? Apparently people do not really mind as long as there an amusement park built around a false idea that we all believe.
So this began my journey of being okay in a world that is not always what you think it is. I have many more awesome discoveries and learnings I have encounter the past few years that have made me smile, cry, laugh and sometimes feel not good enough. I have also learned that no matter how much work you do on yourself to be okay with ever changing uncontrollable world there are still sometimes that I can’t help feeling so much passion around and want the world to feel the same level of emotion around… Like Orcas are NOT WHALES!!!!!!!!!
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