Hi. My name is George. It’s a beautiful new fall day in Florida. I’m sitting in my air conditioned CRV, seat reclined back, and taking in the lovely panoramic view of the big Sky just like I often do. I think my windowed sheltered vehicle is one of the best environments to enjoy the Earth and it’s awesome visual beauty. For inspiration, it gets no better when looking out to infinity on a clear Star filled night. But right now, I’m observing a dragonfly and I’m wondering what it knows.
Does it know the warmth it feels is coming from the blazing energy of the nearest Star? Does it know that a clear view of the Night Sky is the real perspective? Does it know of the Earth and it soaring through a transparent, dark, and deadly abyss at unbelievable speeds? Does it know that it is lucky to be alive and lucky to have this barely life-supporting environment in the cold and harsh depths of Space? Does it know of the Human beings that do not share this amazing planet with it or each other? What does it know, what does it think?
If I were a self-aware dragonfly, I would think the Human race insane. Instead of Human beings realizing that together they all share a planet and need to do what needs to be done for all to survive mother nature and fulfill pleasures of life, they brutalize the race by labeling territories and assigning value and ownership of people, property, contribution, acceptance, liberty, and even the Earth itself; then guise that forced separation and slavery by laws and lies to allow only a select minority to prosper, some to compete for the scraps, and a majority just to suffer and die from the injustice and inequality of it all.
If I were a self-aware dragonfly, I would be sad. I would be sad to watch Human beings die because of the others. The Human beings I envy have the capability to work together to ensure that all Life in Space is given the best treatment its entire collective race can provide but instead choose sinfully to devalue Life for personal gain and personal survival.
If I were a self-aware dragonfly, I would be envious to not have such dexterous limbs, and adaptive brain and body as Human beings do. I would be stupefied why the beings of Earth that do didn’t use them to freely share all their knowledge and education to practice and to perfect, in order to freely provide the best for their entire species. I would question if they were using any of their brains at all for what lessons are the parents and teachers providing and demonstrating to screw up their children so badly? Would not the ethical lesson include the survival and comfort of all paramount? Why shouldn’t a capable and technologically advanced species share and co-operate to help itself and the entire world?
I hope the dragonfly knows nothing. Truth is, I envy the freedom of the dragonfly. The freedom it has to live in nature without past, sense of time, judgment, servitude, or awareness. It merely exists to exercise and experience its freedoms by navigating the environment. I wish my fellow beings could so simply see the world.
Fly dragonfly, simply live, fly, and enjoy the Earth and the Universe as I pretend.
