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You’ll Always Be A Part of Me
Indefinitely
You’ll always be a part of me,
I’m part of you indefinitely,
Boy don’t you know you can’t escape me,
Ooh, darling, ’cause you’ll always be my baby— Mariah Carey
Honeydew.
That’s the substance all relationships would wish to be characterized by, and yet, it’s not seen among humans. It exists between the ants and aphids, but only after using certain human-like tendencies. The ant will stroke — please read this word innocently — the aphid to secrete honeydew, an energy-rich substance aphids produce when they ingest sap from plants.
Does that remind you of anything?
Ever tried to separate a child from the mother? The Solomonic tale of how the Biblical king deduced the true mother shows how much the mother would go to protect their child. In the example I have shown, it’s almost similar, but subtly twisted in more ways than one, because the ants did not give birth to the aphids, but they would defend them with their lives from predators.
Recent research shows manipulation may be a part of this. First, think about how children manipulate their caregivers. Their cries have, time and time again, been silenced by forcing…
