What Does It Mean To Be The Perfect Pebble?

Life is a mysterious, constant twist of emotion, which makes me wonder how others deal with the hardships of it. I've always been fascinated by people's daily lives and how they go about living, but what strikes as even more intriguing: the life and emotions of animals. Many do not believe that animals can administer emotion, that they are just brainless existence of matter, which seem to live. Most of the naive to this thought classify animals as things we cannot communicate with, which we have no better understanding of the way they function, none above ourselves. Our own human brains defeat us with untold, impossible understandings of the world we live on, the universe it resides in. We are not the only species capable of higher level thinking,

Maybe it was time to propose? But he couldn’t give her just any rock to present to her, it had to be the perfect one. For weeks he had walked the beach, contemplating what the perfect rock would look like, debating on whether she would approve of his proposal or not. Finally, he found it, there laying in the cold sand, the perfect pebble! Wait, pebble? Yes, Gentoo penguins propose to their girlfriends with pebbles, and will, in fact, search the entire beach for the “perfect pebble”. Sound familiar? They did not learn proposal from humans, it was wired in their behavioral instincts. As it may be, we could have learned it from them: we studied this and took it into our own consideration, and maybe it’s been a made tradition that’s just stuck. Another traditional thing that’s happening a lot in society today--cheating on one’s significant other. Okay, so maybe an animal isn’t going into it, knowing exactly what they’re doing and calling it wrong, but there are many species of animals that do not stick with one mating partner. When mating, several competing male anacondas can wrap themselves around the mating female and form a ball in a ritual that can last up to a month. In that case, it’s the woman who has several other men than the original whom she was to mate with. It’s not wrong in animals’ behaviors because their emotional instincts don’t tell them that it is, or perhaps a snake of such magnitude would do something about it. This is not like the seahorse, which mates for life, and even travel with their mates at an average speed of .01 mph, holding each other’s tails along the way. Many types of insect and arachnid females will kill and eat their male partners if they either do not wish to mate or become bored of them. I’d rather this part of animalistic behaviors does not cross over into our society’s traditions. Cat-calling is another less-than-desirable trend in our society,