The Life of a Grasshopper

I spend most of my life enjoying what the world has to offer me. From the delicious grass that is  glister, draped in splashes of water during the summer to the flowers that blossom and have such a variety to choose from. Playing hide- n- seek during the day with my pal the bird. I become real rowdy at night when I am lost or just finding my perfect mate. Some people see me as ugly and worthless just because of my color and what I do to the environment. I can not help the way I look from my long stretched antennas, my hind legs that help me escape from death or amusingly playing around, my googly eyes that are en-depth into your eyes as it reflects off my eyes just like a mirror. I was brought into this world like this, and had no say in how or what I will look like as the years go by. I might have been born into this world with one leg or no legs at all. I would have lived for at least two days, if I am lucky more. And if my life ended, it is better to have stepped onto this earth and died with knowing that I took a chance with no regrets to hold back on, even if it was two days, one or even 10 minutes. Life is precious and everyone bares  an expiration date. 

Taken by Ivette Tovar Reyes
10/03/14

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     I never knew much about the life of a grasshopper and how its life span it short lived. These magnificent herbivores are some fascinating creature. I see these all the time around my house, even in my moms car ( which I have no idea how it got there). But I never asked what is a grasshopper? And what is so interesting about them? I did some research cause I had no flipping clue and I found out so much information that I did not know. Like they give their predators the impression that their distasteful from their color and that they digest toxic plants to poison theirs eaters. When I found this grasshopper ( that scared me) I observed it, from the length to if it was a male or female. And I concluded that this was a female by the size and also the color. Males are more colorful with yellow or red while the females are a slant color. Theirs a place not near the creek but in a bush if you keep walking along the path where at night is full of music that seems as if your at a orchestra concert in your backyard . And I just sit their at the corner and listen to the music that soothes me and makes me not want to head back home just from the way it makes me drowsy ( that makes me fall asleep). Grasshoppers sound are like drugs to me they have some affect that cause me to drift into my own world and make me go crazy if I don't get  to hear it. At night when I feel stressed or just thinking about problems that acquire in my daily life, I open my blinds that let in a glimpse of the outside life as it echos in through the small crack and eventually surround my whole room as I solemnly venture into a dark sleep. The sound not only an addiction but relieves me from my ruptured heart full of sorrow and open tears, but when they continuously make music my heart is stitched up and I am reborn. My mind has long forgotten the things that had caused me pain, with a fresh new start and a great awakening to the day ahead when I awake from my deepened sleep. The morning. 
 

From Animals by Demand Media:
The Sex Determination of a Male and Female Grasshopper
A Male Grasshopper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUThMazrbHE