Yesterday was December 9th. I learned something strange that day. They told me that some of the “poisons” used to kill weeds are not poisons at all. They are hormones designed not to destroy the plant, but to force it to grow too fast. When I heard that sentence, my mind froze. So the way to kill a plant is not to weaken it, but to push it into growth it cannot handle. When a weed absorbs this hormone, it enters a state of uncontrolled expansion. It swells, strains, and eventually collapses because its structure cannot bear the speed. What kills the plant is not its inability to grow, but being made to grow too much. This idea unsettled me. The fact that what we call poison is used not to kill, but to “overgrow”… it felt strange, inverted, and strangely illuminating. For a moment, I turned inward: Aren’t there things that kill humans the same way ...