Amazing - close.

Awesome side by side. Sometimes life seems so everyday, monotonous, and the surrounding things familiar and familiar, that we stop noticing about everything around us. Hurrying to work, or going on a routine Saturday trip to the store, it seems to us that by the age of 25 to 30 we learned a lot, we've seen a lot and surprise us with practically nothing. So I thought until recently. Until one day my daughter came to the enthusiastic from the Lyceum - "Dad, you can not imagine what I saw! Do you know that a fly is a real monster with teeth and a hairy muzzle ?! If the flies were the size of a man, then we, as a biological species, would lose them in the struggle for survival. "
I was surprised at the emotionality of my daughter, after all, sometimes even for a short conversation she will not be untwisted - and here on you straight in the forehead from the doorstep! After fifteen minutes of a confused story, I realized that at the lyceum in the biology class they were studying an unusual optical device - a microscope. And all the class considered everything that came to hand. I immediately remembered about my Soviet childhood, when, under the guidance of a strict biologist at the lesson, we tried to catch a small mirror in the light and send it to the eyepiece of the microscope. My daughter told me that modern microscopes are already equipped with built-in light and this made me start to study the material in encyclopedias. I learned that a microscope is an optical device designed to produce enlarged images of objects, parts or surfaces. According to the design microscopes are divided into two types: Biological (designed to conduct studies in transmitted light) - have a large range of magnifications from 30 to 2000 times. They are used in educational, medical, and various research purposes. Instrumental (stereoscopic) microscopes - are designed to work with relatively large opaque objects. They have a much smaller increase (from 1 to 80 times), they are used in industry, science for studying metals, minerals and so on. I was pleased that any microscope can be turned into digital, replacing the optical eyepiece with a video eyepiece. The microscope will allow us to penetrate into the secrets of the microworld, to better understand the structure of the surrounding things and to see them from a new angle. From a practical point of view, the microscope will be useful in training, starting with the junior classes of the school and ending with the senior courses of higher educational institutions.

Well, now I was already "unstoppable." On the one hand, my daughter's story really captured me, on the other hand I wanted to relive and remember my childhood impressions. I got into the car and drove to the nearest technical supermarket, where I bought a simple children's model of a microscope. In the evening with my daughter, we looked at drops of water, coins from my collection and paper money, then switched to viewing flour, salt and other spices. Even ordinary paper and silk fabric looked bizarre and unusual at a large magnification!
Once, walking around the house in rainy autumn weather, I thought - why not investigate the water taken from a usual dirty puddle. While enthusiasm did not pass, I had to run to the nearest pharmacy to buy a pipette. Having typed in a pipette of water, I incidentally put in a special container stunted foliage, pebbles, broken branches and all other "gifts of nature" that fell in sight. Arriving home, we began to consider a sample of a drop of water under a microscope and found in the water Ameba. The single-celled living organism struck us with its craving for life - it always aspired to the center of the drop, "to the depth." I remembered again a textbook on biology and thought that earlier, as a child, the world seemed unexplored and mysterious, enticing. But after all, and now everything seems to me unexplored and mysterious .. I am grateful to my daughter for the fact that she, without knowing it, returned the taste to life. She made me understand that the field of knowledge is not limited to the usual workdays and weekends "on schedule." And especially not limited to what often we hear from the radio of the car or see in the TV. Today my friend will come to see me. Before telling the whole world this story, I shared my story with a person close to me, together with him we graduated from a technical school, we served together in an infantry division, almost simultaneously married. But my friend, with all due respect, is a little lazy. It constantly needs to be pushed to something. And now even to direct his actions and worldview in the right direction, one of my words was not enough. Do you think I will succeed?

Today, my friend will meet the whole family, the wife and daughter have already prepared for work and set up a miracle device. On the coffee table in a few rows lie ordinary little things, which we will soon start to increase. Why do I write all this - just such a rush, just a condition, as if I saw the world completely different eyes. This is not at all an attempt to "puumnichat" and impose their point of view on someone. On the contrary, I want to say briefly, like a shot, - Amazing - next, we just need to learn to notice it. We need to always remember that if it seems to us that "I know everything" or "I've seen everything", it keeps us within. And to get out of them - there must be a miracle.