Fatal Attractions

Tonight, I watched a show on Animal Planet called, "Fatal Attractions." On the show, it highlights pet-owners, that take their love for pets to a dangerous and obsessive level. On this particular episode, it showed this man named, Ted Dres, who owned a pet 13-foot python. He would let the snake coil around his neck, and he stated that it would comfort him. Ted would watch his python eat rabbits, and film the snake obliterating the rabbit. This is what the white girls call, "CREEPY" and what the black girls call "WEIIRRD." I feel that Ted was so powerless in his life, that he used the snake as a way to have power and control things. Ted also had a side hobby of making bombs, and was a product of this behavior.

However, in the episode, there's also another man by the name of Jim Harrison, who used venom to cure diseases.  I thought it was extremely powerful, that something as dangerous as venom, and something that could take lives, could also be used to save someone's life. For 34 years, Jim tracked venomous snakes and milked the venom out of each snake. Unfortunately, he came across the wrong snake, and it almost killed him. I then asked myself the question, could I ever care for something so much, that I would put my life on the line, every day for? Jim definitely did. He cared so much about his work, and retrieving venom, that he didn't mind putting his life on the line for it.

It was interesting comparing both people on the show, because they are both on opposite spectrums. This definitely could go for creative people, there are the creative people who use their creativity for negativity, and then there are the creatives who use their ideas positively.