People like to talk about nature as if it is perfectly designed. As if every petal, branch, and fin was drafted by some all-knowing architect. But when you study biology, like really study it, you see something else. During my undergrad years at MIT, I learned about cell biology, evolutionary biology, and biological engineering. It taught me that nature is simultaneously miraculous and mysterious, but it isn't this perfect, all-knowing thing entity that has perfected its masterful designs over hundreds of thousands of years.

Nature is strange, iterative, adaptive, improvising. It's full of detours and improvisations. It is miraculous, and it is weird. And so are we. After all, nature made us too. 

When I found OceanFilly's work, I was reminded of us. She doesn't turn nature into this flatted entity that is aesthetic and polished. And yet she has such an immense reverence and fascination with it that shows as she shares the romance, absurdity, and chaos of life. And she makes it so joyful and fun. 

Watching her videos reminds you that curiosity is allowed and necessary. Science can be playful, and that weird is not wrong, its a necessary part of life. This doesn't mean our reverence for nature is diminished. It just means we stop worhsipping perfection and start honoring the process. It shows us that there are miracles in the mess of life. 

I wished content creation existed when I was in college. It would have reminded me that behind every dense textbook chapter and metabolic map, that there was something worth laughing about and a story about imperfection that I could have learned from. 

I reached out to Brooke to see if she would be willing to do a fun video play on "there are more fish in the sea" to play off of human dating theories meets nature's reality. She was excited to participate and even put an awesome mood board together which was amazing for our team. 

She loved our Solar Canopy fragrance. It appropriately came from an extinct flower from Maui. Like much of life by and inside the ocean, it's bright and juicy and playful. It matched the vibe of the video and Brookes energy. 

I hope the next time you are in awe of something you see in nature, that you remind yourself that you are made of the same stuff. 

Onwards,

Jasmina