It
was a beautiful day, if I remember it right. The sun was high in the sky; the
sky was clear and crisp. A gentle breeze was blowing outside and I was working
on my laptop. Suddenly I hear this buzzing sound. There is no need to elaborate
on how annoyed I was. At one time or another, we have all been annoyed by a
buzzing fly in our rooms; stubborn flies that have made it their mission to
annoy us.
I
tried to ignore it, of course. I tried to ignore its mere existence, the very
acknowledgement that it was there in my room, at my window, buzzing away. But
it was impossible. It flew from one corner of the room to another, buzzing off
its abilities and stopping at the window. I sighed and got up. I opened the
window to let it out. I grabbed a piece of paper and rolled it up. I tried to shoo
the fly away towards the window. So there it was: a beautiful day, and me
trying to get rid of a discreet noise and the source of that noise.
The
fly wouldn’t have it. Right next to it an exit lay that would lead the fly to
its window but it only jabbed at the window pressing itself against it. I gave
it another shoo only for the fly to buzz off to another part of my room and
then come back to the window and stop only a distance short of the exit. Needless
to say, I was frustrated.
How could you not see the exit right there close to you? I asked the fly or to myself out loud. The fly looked desperate as it searched for a way to the outside world jabbing and restless at my window. But no, it seemed oblivious to the exit to that very world. And then this random realization hit my head. Are we all flies at a window at some point in life? The fly kept going to the window thinking of the world outside and looking for a shortcut from the window when in fact, the exit of the window was a little far away that it could not see. Is this what we do in real life, too? Do we try to find a shortcut to the things we want not bothering to look a little farther down the way where the actual path to that thing is? Are we all flies at a window looking for a way out?
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