I tend to save insects from drowning too, these days and have done so for quite a while.
Fruit flies are happier inside of beer than outside, so I'll let them drown ( just kidding )
The last step to ZEN mastery is to let a mosquito suck your blood and not kill it. That's a tough one, especially if it sits on your face in the dark. I managed to do so once or twice though.
P.S. I still swap flies and mosquito every now and then though. I'm not there yet and ticks and leeches are tough too like too.
I've also allowed mosquitos to suck my blood, just to see if I could. And I once had an amazing experience while meditating, a mosquito was buzzing around me without ever landing on me, and its zooming turned into shamanic humming, it was a wonderful!
That's an amazing story! Love it!
P.S. I was reminded of this post I made about a year ago, playing around with a hypersensitivosaurus story that I penned down in one of my many notebooks:
https://peakd.com/@vincentnijman/kpwsrsqc ( Mrs. Mosquito )
@bulldog-joy you might enjoy this too!
Lol, cute lil story. You sound just like a guy I know from the Netherlands, such a Dutch accent lol.
@drrune to let the mosquito suck is a really big challenge and it takes a lot to do so.
Haha! I speak so many languages that I don't bother about the accent. I guess it's part of me ;<)
Yeah, it's hard to grant a mosquito your blood. It's a parasite after all. It's not like it's a symbiotic relationship and you get something out of it too haha!
Accents are not bad 😁 Some of them suck, some German accents in particular 🤣 .
And I have to disagree with the mosquito issue. It is a symbiotic relationship, you get Malaria, Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Dengue Fever, Zika Infection, West Nile Fever...😂
Hahaha! I decided not to make a joke about mosquitos giving us malaria and so on and then you did! Nice one :<)
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Lol, I hear you. Mosquitos are a pain lol. Luckily we don't have as many so it's easy.
Ticks, yah, Joy is a tick collector but instead of flushing them down the toilet I throw them out of the window.
I mean in nature things get killed, it may be the intention behind it ;)
Sometimes I had the feeling that the fruit flies knew when I was there and got xtra drunk on purpose knowing that I would save them lol.
If we throw everything together we are closer to ZEN than a lot of people out there ;).