More Oddities (and forcing the last post down... }:"D>
Last night I came to an odd realisation.
I was working at a place called Ruby Hill, it's a rich neighborhood with a nice little community center that I check every hour. Nice big pool, good walking area... Altogether a nice place.
Well I noticed upon walking around the pool area that there was alot of crap in the water. On closer inspection I noticed that they were bugs. I don't know if they live here but they looked like June Bugs out of Oklahoma.
Most of them were drowned and just floating but I saw one still struggling and swimming around. I don't know why, I didn't even think about it until afterwards, but I reached in, let it climb onto my finger with it's strong little legs, and pulled it out. Now I'll be the first to admit that those strong little legs felt a bit like pincers and I kinda flung him a little bit but those things are die hard, hardcore buggies. Nada problem for him. He walked away happy.
I then spent the next fifteen minutes scouting the edge of the pool and searching for other survivors, pulling them out and nicely setting them down on the ground to crawl away.
Fifteen minutes of my time spent taking bugs out of the water...
When I found that there was a live one out of my reach I went and got a pool toy to get him (or her though I doubt the female would be dumb enough to jump into the water without any thought).
I don't understand the compassion sometimes. It hangs so deeply but... Good lord I don't know.
It was a waste of time to take bugs out of the water that ended themselves up there anyway. They were just like a bunch of lemmings, suicidal and not worth saving... I used to say that Natural Selection needs to be reindoctrinated...
But... One quote stays with me. A star instead of just starfish.
"It made a difference to that one."
I was alone... No one would even know unless I mentioned it like this and I didn't plan on it. It didn't win me any brownie points (looks at the empty plate of brown crumbs), I don't believe that Karma even exists for me...
My father used to tell me, and I just remembered this now, that it's not the things that you do in front of people that make you who you are, it's the things you do when you know no one's looking.
*sighs* ...well... I guess I'll figure it out when I eat it. Hopefully I'll be given some kind of certificate on my death that shows me how well I did in all respects, but probably not.
And what Sailor just had to say sure didn't help my mood at all.
Oh... Happy... Day...
I was working at a place called Ruby Hill, it's a rich neighborhood with a nice little community center that I check every hour. Nice big pool, good walking area... Altogether a nice place.
Well I noticed upon walking around the pool area that there was alot of crap in the water. On closer inspection I noticed that they were bugs. I don't know if they live here but they looked like June Bugs out of Oklahoma.
Most of them were drowned and just floating but I saw one still struggling and swimming around. I don't know why, I didn't even think about it until afterwards, but I reached in, let it climb onto my finger with it's strong little legs, and pulled it out. Now I'll be the first to admit that those strong little legs felt a bit like pincers and I kinda flung him a little bit but those things are die hard, hardcore buggies. Nada problem for him. He walked away happy.
I then spent the next fifteen minutes scouting the edge of the pool and searching for other survivors, pulling them out and nicely setting them down on the ground to crawl away.
Fifteen minutes of my time spent taking bugs out of the water...
When I found that there was a live one out of my reach I went and got a pool toy to get him (or her though I doubt the female would be dumb enough to jump into the water without any thought).
I don't understand the compassion sometimes. It hangs so deeply but... Good lord I don't know.
It was a waste of time to take bugs out of the water that ended themselves up there anyway. They were just like a bunch of lemmings, suicidal and not worth saving... I used to say that Natural Selection needs to be reindoctrinated...
But... One quote stays with me. A star instead of just starfish.
"It made a difference to that one."
I was alone... No one would even know unless I mentioned it like this and I didn't plan on it. It didn't win me any brownie points (looks at the empty plate of brown crumbs), I don't believe that Karma even exists for me...
My father used to tell me, and I just remembered this now, that it's not the things that you do in front of people that make you who you are, it's the things you do when you know no one's looking.
*sighs* ...well... I guess I'll figure it out when I eat it. Hopefully I'll be given some kind of certificate on my death that shows me how well I did in all respects, but probably not.
And what Sailor just had to say sure didn't help my mood at all.
Oh... Happy... Day...