As winter fades and green becomes a more common sight, so do the bugs return to every corner of my world.
I often thing about the comparison to ourselves, humans, and those bugs and I wonder who is the more evolved species. Relatively, it would seem that we bipedal organisms have it all figured out. We created, and continue to create, wonderful technology that helps thousands of people every day. Distracts millions more people each day. Kills people, our enemies, on a scale previously thought unimaginable.
Surely, we are more evolved.
If, like me, the above statement sounds frightening because of its reality then let me propose a different idea.
Most arthropods are not evolving too much anymore. They’ve been around in their current forms, more or less, for hundreds of millions of years. While nothing has truly finished evolving, bugs are pretty damn close. In that sense, I’d say we have a long way to go.
So, as we should always ask ourselves, what can we learn from this? What can we learn from bugs?
Go outside, or inside or wherever you can and find a bug. Any bug will do. Pick it up, let it crawl on your hand, and watch it. Bugs are curious creatures. Constantly crawling and checking things with their antennae, falling off of things, getting back up, flying around, flying into things. They are adventurers in their environments in the purest sense.
They possess a certain collective intelligence and inherent need to preserve the community. They serve that collective with their entire being.
Of course, maybe I’m just talking about ants here with the collective thing, but you get the point. If you’re reading this and you’ve made it this far and you’re thinking, “What is this bullshit? What is this rambling?” then I implore you to open your mind and see the world from a different fucking perspective for once.
We, people, humans, think that we know everything because we have a universe of knowledge at our fingertips, but i guarantee that if you go outside and stare at a bug you will learn something valuable about your life from observing those tiny creatures.
The answers are all around us, it is our responsibility to look and to learn all that we can from the natural world.
I was going to write more here. More subjects about things in this world that don’t yet make sense to me (but that are starting to).
But i feel that i got a little too passionate above, so I’m ending it here.
Go live like a bug.
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