A flower is in one sense a brilliant
advertisement. With its alluring aroma, appealing color, and voluptuous
shape, it captures the attention of insects and birds, inviting them in for a
visit. It's not false advertising: The pollinators get to imbibe sweet food at
the heart of the flower. But the flower also has a hidden agenda. Its male
reproductive material, the pollen, gets stuck to the pollinators' bodies,
and they carry it away to the female organs of new flowers, thereby
facilitating the plant version of impregnation. Now imagine that you are a
flower, and re-read everything I just said, interpreting it as a metaphor for
the approach you might want to pursue in the coming days.
advertisement. With its alluring aroma, appealing color, and voluptuous
shape, it captures the attention of insects and birds, inviting them in for a
visit. It's not false advertising: The pollinators get to imbibe sweet food at
the heart of the flower. But the flower also has a hidden agenda. Its male
reproductive material, the pollen, gets stuck to the pollinators' bodies,
and they carry it away to the female organs of new flowers, thereby
facilitating the plant version of impregnation. Now imagine that you are a
flower, and re-read everything I just said, interpreting it as a metaphor for
the approach you might want to pursue in the coming days.
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