The buzz that refuses to cease...
So why why why are there these creatures, these godforsaken insects called mosquitoes!? Why! Why would this tiny invertebrate segmented animal having a head, thorax, abdomen and three pairs of thoracic wings survive the throes of evolution and the wrath that nature hath exhuded upon living creatures great and small through the ages? And if it simply HAD to survive, then why couldn't it have evolved rapidly and become a little more bearable! I mean I am sure that it was just as irritating to dinosaurs or the neanderthal man as it is to me! It is the same no matter where you go on the face of this earth and at what point of time in the annals of history you decide to do that.
The hummmmm in your ears does not change - it simply refuses to cease too! It treats all with the same sort of vengeful bloodthirsty delight - no biases, no concessions, no partiality whatsoever! It must have buzzed around Alexander the Great just as it probably did around Chanakya Vishnugupta's shaved pate as he wrote the Arthashastra, bitten and caused angry red bumps on Cleopatra's shapely legs just as it must have buzzed around General MacArthur during his meeting with Emperor Hirohito that fateful day after the fall of the Japanese Empire. This tiny mite has seen all those historical people/ events - has been privy to everything that people today vie to know! I am a history buff myself, and would love to find keys to mysteries of the past...but above all else, the one thing that I would want to know would be the reason behind the persisting existence of the mosquito. I know that I'm being redundant here, but the question still persists... why? Why? WHY? And why so many varieties!? I mean, one is enough...to deal with us all! I have yet to go to a place where there are no mosquitoes at all...it doesn't matter if the Red Indians got there before the Britishers, or that the Aryans arrived after the Dravidians, or that the Ainus had settled long before the Japanese set foot on Hokkaido....from the rural landscape of India where they cruise around like miniature helicopters, the metropolises like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore where they hide in corners and strike only after "lights out", to country capitals like Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Washington, Geneva, Helsinki...no matter what area the country lies in, no matter what colour the people, no matter who discovered it...no...none of this matters...the exasperating thing is that no matter what, the mosquito got there before them! (I know that there are other animals that got there with the mosquito...BUT THEY ARE NOT AS IRRITATING AS THESE...THESE WASPS-IN-GUISE!) Ahem...hmm...so coming back to where I left off...people who cohabit these cities start acquiring their attributes...no wonder we see people hiding behind corners in the cities, being hypocritical and what not! See, its not dirty politics and the socio-economic upheavals that make people behave the way they do! Mosquitoes are naturalizing us! Mosquitoes in Tokyo are least like those in, say, Mumbai. They do bite you, but that too, sheepishly. As though they're ashamed of what they have to do, and hence they bite you in places that you have to harness all your yogic prowess in order to reach, so that they don't have to show you their sorry faces.
And not only this, but they hold your fate in their hands most of the time. A good timely bite to the right person, at the right place can make or break your looks (imagine a surgeon ready to perform surgery), your career (what if the mosquito has been a real pest before you enter the room for your interview? The interviewer is probably bugged already, and you showing how smart you are when he can't think straight is not going to be of any use), even your life (imagine the havoc a stray mosquito can create in the cockpit of the airplane you're on)...so, remember, its not your parents, or your teachers, or your boss, or your wife, or Santa Claus or God for that matter who decides your fate and/or how you will be rewarded...its the mosquito! GAWD! AND WHY?
Hmm...I have now accepted the fact that my life is ruled by the great mosquito...I am willing to follow the rule of the proboscis...So there...the mosquito...no doubt an embodiment of all that's coveted in the eighth wonder (okay, you may make that the ninth) of the modern as well as ancient world...Amen to that!
The hummmmm in your ears does not change - it simply refuses to cease too! It treats all with the same sort of vengeful bloodthirsty delight - no biases, no concessions, no partiality whatsoever! It must have buzzed around Alexander the Great just as it probably did around Chanakya Vishnugupta's shaved pate as he wrote the Arthashastra, bitten and caused angry red bumps on Cleopatra's shapely legs just as it must have buzzed around General MacArthur during his meeting with Emperor Hirohito that fateful day after the fall of the Japanese Empire. This tiny mite has seen all those historical people/ events - has been privy to everything that people today vie to know! I am a history buff myself, and would love to find keys to mysteries of the past...but above all else, the one thing that I would want to know would be the reason behind the persisting existence of the mosquito. I know that I'm being redundant here, but the question still persists... why? Why? WHY? And why so many varieties!? I mean, one is enough...to deal with us all! I have yet to go to a place where there are no mosquitoes at all...it doesn't matter if the Red Indians got there before the Britishers, or that the Aryans arrived after the Dravidians, or that the Ainus had settled long before the Japanese set foot on Hokkaido....from the rural landscape of India where they cruise around like miniature helicopters, the metropolises like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore where they hide in corners and strike only after "lights out", to country capitals like Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Washington, Geneva, Helsinki...no matter what area the country lies in, no matter what colour the people, no matter who discovered it...no...none of this matters...the exasperating thing is that no matter what, the mosquito got there before them! (I know that there are other animals that got there with the mosquito...BUT THEY ARE NOT AS IRRITATING AS THESE...THESE WASPS-IN-GUISE!) Ahem...hmm...so coming back to where I left off...people who cohabit these cities start acquiring their attributes...no wonder we see people hiding behind corners in the cities, being hypocritical and what not! See, its not dirty politics and the socio-economic upheavals that make people behave the way they do! Mosquitoes are naturalizing us! Mosquitoes in Tokyo are least like those in, say, Mumbai. They do bite you, but that too, sheepishly. As though they're ashamed of what they have to do, and hence they bite you in places that you have to harness all your yogic prowess in order to reach, so that they don't have to show you their sorry faces.
And not only this, but they hold your fate in their hands most of the time. A good timely bite to the right person, at the right place can make or break your looks (imagine a surgeon ready to perform surgery), your career (what if the mosquito has been a real pest before you enter the room for your interview? The interviewer is probably bugged already, and you showing how smart you are when he can't think straight is not going to be of any use), even your life (imagine the havoc a stray mosquito can create in the cockpit of the airplane you're on)...so, remember, its not your parents, or your teachers, or your boss, or your wife, or Santa Claus or God for that matter who decides your fate and/or how you will be rewarded...its the mosquito! GAWD! AND WHY?
Hmm...I have now accepted the fact that my life is ruled by the great mosquito...I am willing to follow the rule of the proboscis...So there...the mosquito...no doubt an embodiment of all that's coveted in the eighth wonder (okay, you may make that the ninth) of the modern as well as ancient world...Amen to that!
posted by Crabby at Wednesday, October 05, 2005
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