My Plant the Escape Artist

For years it has been debated whether or not plants have the ability to think or scheme. Scientists claim that it cannot be proven and so far all attempts have failed. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am here today to tell you that I own a plant that has cognitive ability and uses it on a daily basis. You see, my plant is, and has been for a full year, trying to escape.
This is my plant:

As you can see, it is trying to climb out of the door. Unfortunately, the lighting is not great in this picture, but it you look closely you can see the part of the plant that is growing down towards the door knob. I'm telling you, this plant wants out. 

So where did this smart plant come from, you ask? My mother gave it to me for Christmas last year (2013). It looked like this: 

(I did not take that picture)

And a week or two later it looked like this: 

(didn't take that one either) 

When my mom gave it to me, she expected it to grow to say I love you and then die and I thought it would too, but it kept growing. The bulb part that says "I love you" split open and a stem grew out of it. It eventually grew too tall to support itself so my mother and I tied it to a chopstick to help it stand up straight.d up straight. For a while it wound up the chop stick, but eventually it grew too tall.
At this point, I was in love with this plant. I had never had a plant of my own that actually had a chance of lasting in this world. Not to mention we still had no clue what type of plant it was. So, I convinced my mom to buy a new pot and help me re-pot it. The process was terrifying. We had to cut off the can. My mom warned me about a million times that this might not work and that my plant might die. (it didn't)
We gave it a new chopstick tied onto the top of the old one, but the plant wanted to grow outwards. It was tired of just growing up so we bought it the black fence thing.

My mom began to worry about how big this plant would get so we finally looked it up and discovered that it was a Sword Bean plant. Sword beans are inedible, but they're huge and look cool. I don't have any pictures of mine before they dried, but they're easy to find online. I have a picture of when the beans were just beginning and the plant was still flowering.

Of course, it was not always easy going taking care of this plant. It got infested at one point and some of the leaves looked like this:

A bit of bug spray fixed that right up. I think the leaf in that image has since dried up. The plant hardly made it through the winter. We all thought it was going to die even though we kept it happy and watered. It didn't die. Again. 

Anyways, summer came around and I guess the plant got tired of hanging out inside. It has been trying to escape ever since. It grew to the door and latched onto a pointless hook by the frame. And of course that new branch is reaching for the knob. My mom will probably insist on me tying it back soon, but I am enjoying its escape. It is truly the smartest plant I have ever known.