In my 2021 vision board, I intend to manifest something “better” than “all of this” (I write it all gesturing the last ten months). I add “learning to shine from within.” Don’t you think it’s an elegant trick? I will generate my own light source, a kind of self-sustaining luminescence, which I am really in control of and untouchable by external forces, both personal and of wider scope. That i It would save gobs and gobs of money in potions lining the skin. Yes. This is not a metaphorical manifestation. I’m talking about glow literally like a Bushwick delirium in 2012, girl. Shining like the rooms in your most famous niche on Instagram. Shining like the streets of Dyker Heights on Christmas Eve.
And while this is the kind of resolution that’s not uncommon in the Goop era, everything seems more possible than ever, this thing of “glow from within,” because scientists have found it in nature. In October, we learned that platypus — Down Under duckbill swimmers — can glow with bloom. It turns out that those beautiful freakos aren’t the only mammals that catch light. This month, The New York Times according to reports, more scientists based in Australia discovered that bare-nosed wombats, hedgehogs, porcupines, echidnas and something called bilby also emit natural neon elements. Animals have a positive shine. These things light up like a Christmas tree or when you eat too much carrot.
The fact is that the glow is not visible to the naked eye. I am sorry to report that the discovery process involved the same technology successfully applied in MTV episodes Room Raiders—Black light—, as well as an object that cancels UV light. So maybe the glow is more metaphorical than I thought five minutes ago when I wrote this first paragraph? Maybe it’s really more than a kind of “totally within yourself” thing, like, you you know it’s there, but no one else can see it, and that’s powerful?
Hm, no, wait. Let me finish reading this article. Do these animals know they can shine? Are they aware of their own glow? He says scientists can’t say. And they still don’t know if the animals themselves can see glows from other animals. So maybe the lesson here is that we …all… can it have a glow inside us? Even though we can’t literally see it? Do we just need to find the right black light, along with UV cancellation technology to unlock it with the naked eye (now I’m talking firmly metaphorically)? Hm, okay. For sure. Relying on the glow is within us, even though we can’t see it, it seems like an achievable goal for 2021. Happy demonstration!
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