A study of albatrosses
If you’re a bird, I’m a bird
Albatrosses mate for life. Till death do them part. This is the aviary version of the 2004 film “The Notebook” based on the 1996 debut novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. This is what Allie meant when she told Noah “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird”. She must have been talking about Albatrosses.
The albatross male will leave, wandering across the ocean all year before finally coming back to his mate – and he will do this time and time again. The two exist separately within their own orbits yet always succumb to the pull of one another. They never leave for good. These birds and their twin flame relationship trope are probably the reason you believe your breakup isn’t permanent.
Of course, what Nat Geo isn’t telling you is that when the male leaves, he’s fucking other birds. I’m not using British slang here; he actually goes and hooks up with other female Albatrosses.
It’s called extra pair co-population, but I call it fucked up and stupid.
Bird watching really does sneak up on you, doesn’t it?
If you believe Dante ever actually said the whole “Nature is the art of God” thing and life imitates art, that leaves us with nature being art and life imitating nature.
Are you following? Now I know, I know. Nature IS life, but I’m talking human life.
That leaves us to decipher through the behavior of the Albatrosses – that what the male does is to be expected, accepted even.
So what’s the female Albatross supposed to do? Start a blog about it?
Ignore. Adapt. Carry on.
Personally, I’m not sure what I believe in.
Probably that it’s fucked up and stupid.
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