Tuesday, February 02, 2010

salmons

One of my sisters sent me this...

Salmon, anyone?
Busy life... Going with the flow...Most of you might already know about it... I admire the strength of salmon, going against the flow with all of their strength. It is a life or death event. It returns to the birth place, where their life has started. On the way back to their birth place, 50% gets eaten by their predators (killer whale, salmon shark, bear, birds...) ...Speak of having many enemies... and even more do not make it back if they encounter unfavorable circumstances. Those who makes it back, their appearance are disfigured and skins damaged by rocks in the low water leveled areas. They do not eat or even drink water, even when they are traveling in the water in their journey back... Even when they are traveling in the water... When they finally reach their birth place, they lay eggs and die... Oh, how do they know to travel back from wide pacific ocean to its birth place, a specific river head? It is said that they have extreme sensitivity to the smell that they could distinguish smell of a drop of water from the rest of the ocean... Interesting, huh?

Very...

3 comments:

tobiacus said...

hmm..no wonder they taste so good. especially as sushi. =P

little jane said...

so interesting~
we are just like those salmon!
bruised & battered as we will be, i hope we all make it "home" :)

redeemed said...

And there is inside each of us a distinct affinity to that home for which we were so made :)