Several times today, there was a small fly near food I planned to eat, a drink, or a personal item. I heard words of hate toward the little insect in my head. Then another thought arose. It is just one part of existence. What humans have called, in English, a fruit fly. I am the one judging it, naming it a fly, and putting a negative feeling onto it. It just is. Like the air around me—I don’t name it or judge it. This made me laugh. How true. Everything is simply existing whe
