My Love...My Sunshine...My Coffee...My Everything

A meaningful event that has happened in my adulthood was becoming a mother to this awesome little girl…though she is not my biological daughter blood couldn’t make us any closer. A while back I was talking to one of my closest friends and he was telling me about a situation that occurred with the mother of his child. Long story short her mother walked out of her life after we talked for days about this situation he asked me the biggest most heartfelt question ever, he asked me would I take one of the led role in his daughter life as her mother. That point on she has been like my shadow, my motivation, and my coffee in the morning. Everything I do now I do it for her, I’m so afraid to fail in things because I’ll feel like I would let her down, I don’t want her to grow up thinking that she wasn’t good enough for her biological mother to stay around because she’s such an awesome kid. I want her to be proud of me and know that I love her as if she was my own. Before her dad asked me to be such an important role in her life I was like I never ever want kids at all, I still don’t plan on having kids at all but if I do I would be upset at all simply because if this little girl can melt my heart away I can only imagine what another baby can do. Since she has came into my life I have grew up so much and making better decisions though I’m still struggling with time management everything else is fine. When I feel like giving up I just have to think of her smile and use that as fuel to get me back on track. I’m so honored that her dad asked me to be the mother of his child, we might not be together much less the perfect adults to raise a child but I think if we can put our heads together we can figure it out…this experience is different from majority of my adult encounters because never in my life have I thought I would be a mother to a child much less to a child that’s not mine and then not even be upset about it, I must admit I was scared as ever because I didn’t know the first step of being a mother but after talking to family members and using what they told me as a guide I think I’ve did pretty okay this far. Now that she has been in my life the worse thing that could happen to me is if something was to happen to her or if somebody takes her away from me. I don’t know what I would do without this little girl and I don’t plan on finding out. One of the most important lessons this experience has taught me and is still teaching me is you don’t know how much of a difference one person can make in your life and how much of a difference you can make I theirs if you don’t just try. I’m glad God put her in my life and I hope I make her proud one day.  

Save the TURTLES!!!

For my research paper I plan to write about the light pollution and how it affects sea turtles. I plan to talk about how this problem came about and how we as a community can fix it. Sea turtles are endangered because the way the society is getting developed people are not aware of how much a building with lights on the seawall can affect the sea turtles. This is a problem because when buildings are built with lights and the sea turtles are hatching, sea turtles uses the light to guide them towards the ocean so that they can live, but because the buildings on the seawall have bright lights as well the turtles follow that light instead of the moon which guides them off course and once they head towards the buildings they are putting their self in even more danger because they are prong to predators, dehydration and short lives. I hope by the end of my paper it makes people want to get up and go out and help save the sea turtles and hope people act on the buildings. I believe that if the buildings would use a light that didn’t shine on the beach but shined towards the building itself I believe that would help a lot and if in the summer or whenever hatching season is people would volunteer to go out to the beaches and help guide the sea turtles to the ocean so that they can live and wont end up as prey for a crab or die of dehydration due to the fact that they haven’t made it to the water in time.  Though sea turtles have nothing to do with the human race it self that creature was created for a reason though we do not know the reason we still should help save this defenseless animal. I believe that even though we not obligated to save this animal that we should anyways due to the fact that we can help them so much and that in the next couple of decades we are not saying “save the sea turtles”  because we’ve done so much now that there’s enough of the to populate over time. I think it would be an easy task simply because if the buildings can just change the way their lights shine and people can go to the beaches and help guide the turtles.

Could it be or could it not be??

Brest cancer is one of the leading causes to female death around the world. Nobody is 100% sure what the causes this cancer to come about yet, but I hope in the near future they can figure it out so we can have a cure and so ladies don’t continue to die to this diseases. By watching the city dark video it taught me something new that I would have not thought about, could it be that they ladies that work shift work are at a higher risk of having breast cancer? Is it the lack of melatonin that body doesn’t get from the sun because they work at night so they are more exposed to artificial light? Watching this video had me asking many of questions because my mom use to work night shifts all the time, she does not have breast cancer at least we are unaware of if but could this be the cause of other things that has come about to her health? Another thing the video “The City Dark” left me asking was if people are coming to believe that the shift night could be a cause of breast cancer why don’t they change the times of the shift that way the shift workers get some type of sunlight like 6am-6pm for the day shift and 6pm-6am for the night shift workers that way both sides of the shift workers get some type of sunlight other than the artificial light. Something about the video I did like is that the video should use a graph of how the sun verses the light affect our melatonin; it showed when we are in the sun our body uses the sun for the melatonin so we don’t have to produce it our self and when the night time is present our melatonin levels grows higher, well because the night shift workers don’t get sun exposures their melatonin level stay high because the body don’t know the difference when they are at work they in the light when they are home they are in the sun light that goes through their house so their body is completely up. So I hope they come up with a better system for the shift workers. Another thing that was pretty cool yet disturbing was they tested the rat this breast cancer and use the blood they collected from volunteers that was exposed to sunlight and that was not espoused to the light, and oddly enough the blood from the people that was exposed to the sunlight made the breast cancer spread slower verse the blood that had no sunlight which in this test spread faster.  I love what George Brainard, neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “If light exposure at night is a risk factor for a woman to develop breast cancer or for a man to develop prostate cancer, if that’s true, the we really need to know how much light and what quality of light and often and at what time of night is it most problematic.” (qtd. In City Dark).