Mumbai, India
Discovery of Something Small
We were in the air on Air Canada Flight 846. 14 hours.
Straight. That's the way to do
it. All passengers apart from the
airline staff were ticket holders, except for at least one. It was a house fly.
I spotted him clinging onto the drape that separated
passengers from staff and the public washroom.
A free ride, for sure. I wonder
which port he boarded at? Was it
Canada? The U.S.? Europe?
And how long ago? Is family with
this fellow? I'm not absolutely sure of its gender, to be honest. I wouldn't know how to tell. I wasn't sure if he was alive while hanging
there. I grabbed the end of the drape
and ruffled it. Sure enough, the fly
went ‘in flight’ while ‘on the flight’.
I mentioned to the woman standing behind me—in queue for the
washroom—of my find. "You wouldn't
believe what I just saw? A fly."
"You're kidding me!" she said with some genuine level of
amazement. "I've never seen
that!"
I was trying to strike up a friendship with a new person,
and to some extent—the fly. I wasn't
about to go much deeper into the discovery or into my philosophy with a comment
like: “Here is a spirit soul—an anti-material entity trying to find its way in
the world for some food, sleep, sex, and defense, and then dying to graduate
into a new body with new experiences."
I would say that citing a fly was a ‘high-light’ for me and
a ‘high-flight’ for it.
I also met, on this flight, families from Brampton whom I
chatted with. They were humans.
May the Source be with you!
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