How do gnats see?
Do you think their eyes or other sensory organs are too small to compare to our own? How would an entire olfactory mechanism, one that takes up entire square inches of space in our own bodies, be reduced to something microscopic? Or an ear? Even the hairs required for flies to feel their way around a surface are nearly as large as a gnat themselves. Can I even understand a scale like that?
Today, someone drove a truck into a crowd of people in France and killed at least 80 human beings. On a global scale, 80 may seem microscopic, negligible, or unimportant. But this night, every single life taken is sorely missed.
The police shootings across the country and snipers in Dallas, the constant suicide bombings in Iraq and Syria, the undocumented mass killings in African and Middle Eastern countries on a nearly weekly basis, these are all the most important, most tragic losses we could experience. I don’t want to imagine how many more will come. I’m afraid of the numbing, the irreconcilable disinterest another breaking news story will have upon me, upon the world.
Don’t let me slap the gnats away without a thought to their mystery.
It’s late. I need to wake up at 3 AM.
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