Life is a beautiful term coined in the dictionary! Indeed it
is beautiful for the wide range of species it engulfs, the broad spectrum of
emotions it gives us to experience, nice people to associate with, loving human
beings we relate to, affectionate living creatures whom we domesticate and take
care of, wonderful learning outcomes as we progress, valuable teachings we
impart and still a lot more which we cannot pen down but appreciate their fact
of existence. Awesome is the word to describe it!!
But at times it does happen that we are not too happy with
other creatures’ presence in our lives. The very thought of these creatures
disturb us. We don’t even want to think of them and want them to stay away from
us for the rest of their lives. How could they disturb us? How could they
interfere with our daily routine? Why does it happen that we get perturbed by
their presence? Why do they scare us? Why God gave them the liberty to do this?
The fact is that they have a heart beating in them!! But it
is also a fact that they have a brain that is doing something really different
and that something might not be acceptable to our brain. The result is a
conflict. However hard we may try to convince ourselves for the fact that their
brain has a limitation to think and act, still we cannot love them by all our
heart.
Yesterday was a horrifying experience for me. I really got
disturbed by the awful presence of these creatures in my home. I never invited
them. The most saddening part was that they sat through the entire afternoon
yesterday, troubled us through the evening, scared us through the night and are
now actually disturbing me and my family since morning today. If at all my home
was so inviting that they really felt ‘Home sweet home’, why on this earth did
they think of raiding us in swarms??
I now want to shoo them away, though they are one of the God’s
beautiful creations. They are the wasps. They sting. They don’t let us use our
balconies. They don’t let us keep our doors open. They don’t let any of us
breathe in the fresh air in our balconies. They are building their hive just
next to our balcony…We are trying our level best to get rid of them. Their
brain is just not signaling that we hate them. We are sick of them. Now how would
God know that though they are just as important as we are to Him, still we
cannot think of sharing our space!
This is where God needs to fine tune the brains and the
hearts to understand that everyone has their own space and we need to respect
that rather than barge in that without a thought. For now, God is making us criminals.
In self-defense, we are somehow trying to get rid of these unwanted guests. May
the human squad armed with innumerous bottles of Hit, equipped with uncountable
coils of Mortein, loaded with nice fuming incense sticks get immediate respite
from this buzzing raiding swarm…we are tainted with zzzzzzzzzzz phobia!
