Osmosis Land

Back in my glory years of junior high school I had a wonderful math teacher, Mrs. Carlson, that would paranoy us kids about establishing good math habits now otherwise when we'd graduate to high school our then math teacher, Mr. "I" would pillage our work with a red marker. The marker wasn't to star a correct answer. On the contrary, it served as a tool that acted as a syringe pulling blood from our bodies and transposing it on our work. Mr. I was a cruel man. Haha, I'm just kidding. He's actually one of the greatest man I've ever known.

Getting back to Mrs. Carlson's prealgebra classes...She had a poster that had Garfield the cat lazily lounging around with textbooks on top of his head. Apparently he "Learns by Osmosis," which made me so mad because that would make life so much easier for a student. Am I right or am I right about this one?

Upon further examination, though, I realized that we humans use the process of osmosis quite frequently--not with scholarly books but, rather, with life. We become what we behold. I've beheld hunting since I can remember therefore I've become a hunter. I behold great tasting food therefore I am food. Wait, that's terrifying...

Case and point: the beholder becomes what is beheld. Who/what do you behold? There are close friends and family that I behold. It's kinda scary/funny sometimes because as I'm getting older I've realized that I'm taking on many of the traits/sayings of my dad. I know many of us have been shocked when we realize this. Hopefully it's the noble, true, and good things that are our takeaways from these significant others.

I post this reflectively asking myself what I behold and what I should behold. I have some work cut out for me in some areas. In others, I'm happily content. So what do you behold?

"God above invade my soul, I become what I behold."
-Lyrics from "Osmosis Land" by Earthsuit