Sexy In The Fish Tank

To understand what happened to sexy in the fish tank I have to go back to my grandmother. No she did not die of shark – bite. But shark bite is what I live in fear of.

Whoever let a predator into my tank?

I always wondered about that; but now, I know that what really happened was some idiot of a marketing guru put one in.

According to author. V .Oech, this is the story. "Several years ago, a frozen fish processor was having trouble getting repeat sales of a new line of frozen fish. The president looked into the matter and found that his customers didn’t reorder because the fish tasted ‘ Flat ‘. He tried just about every method of keeping the fish fresh including holding them in live tanks until right before they could be processed, but nothing worked. He’d about run of ideas when an expert on the natural history of fish happened by. The man offered one comment: “Why don’t you put a predator in there with them?” This idea worked like a charm. The fish kept moving to avoid being consumed, and as a result, they retained their vitality (and taste). There was some loss but it was more than offset by a thriving market."

Sure it’s a vicious marketing strategy from the fish point of view. I endorse the same.

Now I can’t really figure out my occupational hazard. Is it about the shark chasing me around or is it about me running away from it that is the problem? Doctors say that running is good for health and great for sex. That also qualifies you as the tastiest. If you listen to your doctor you will definitely become extremely sexy. But you will also definitely end up in someone’s dinner plate.

To survive this dilemma we have to take a close look on our OH ( Occupational Hazard ). What exactly is our OH in the Fish Tank?

You guessed wrong. Its not only about the shark who always picks the best meal, but it is about becoming the best meal.

All this is really an old story. But what is really bothersome is that we have not yet realized that we left the fish tank millenniums ago

All that running around from predators over the millenniums has made us the best. The sharks,dinosaurs and now in the final evolutionary climax - the human predators. We are now at a stage where we ourselves are our most formidable vanquishers. Self destruction is what we have to worry about not aliens.

After a billion years of proven track records in the evolutionary marathon we are sure in our knowledge that there are no posthumous awards. Avoiding predators has become a way of life. We also know that without a predator on our heels we will stop achieving . So we put one in the fish tank . To stay sexy and alive.

Our education is geared towards competing with our classmates. In every aspect of life we must score over others - on what we earn, who we marry or what brand we wear. All that competing leads to much sharpening of skills, honing of mental growth and absorption of knowledge from birth till we drop dead.

But to what end? In this frenzy to fight, to outrun, to kill we tend to forget to look back to see who or what is chasing us. Much of this fuss may be eons of evolutionary training but the rest is because we have lost our ability for rational self analysis. For which we can hardly blame ourselves. When ones leaves the safety of home for kindergarten the world certainly becomes a bewildering place.

Which brigs me back to my point. My grandmother did not die of OH. But worse — she died of OR. There is no escape from OR. If the shark won’t get you OR surely will.

OR, is the Orientation response. Psychologist Ardie Lubin says “The OR is Big! The whole body is involved. And when you increase novelty in the environment – which is what a lot of change means – you get continual OR with it . This is probably very stressful for the body. Its helluva load to put on the body .”

So whether its your first trip to the Bahamas or your third marriage at seventy the OR triggers a flood of adrenalin and causes the body to go into adaptive mode which in layman’s language amounts to stress. Dr. Rene Dubos tell us exactly what happens -“Competitive situations , operation within a crowded environment, change in a very profound manner the secretion of hormones...there is absolutely no question that one can overshoot the stimulation of the endocrine system and that this has physiological consequences that last throughout the whole lifetime of the organs.”

This means that stress keeps me sexy, healthy and alive by making me run around. But that is exactly what kills me. WOW ! Its either OH or OR. If that does not kill me maybe there is an undiscovered - Or Else .

Modern research now states that some solution can be found . That way we could get killed by something else instead. Like boredom or dementia.

Another suggestion says that the neo cortex is no longer new so we need to grow a new one very fast.So we can think of some other new ways to die or get killed.

Copyright © 2014, Lima Sehgal
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