Bee Good

Every now and then life presents these moments where an alternative reality reveals itself and leaves you changed for the better. However, in doing so, you also realise that this alternative reality has been there all along and it’s not actually “alternative” at all, it’s the true reality that you’ve been blind to for all your life.

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” (Henry Miller)

Bees. I am watching them through the car window as I sit waiting for my appointment. The morning is bright. The sky blue. The bees are busy in a small deep-green tree with purple flowers. I watch as one hovers, then darts forward onto one of the flowers, he stays briefly then darts back above the leaves, searching for his next purple landing spot. Other bees mirror this dance. I notice the tree is alive with activity. One bee suddenly rises above, hovers for a second or two, and then takes flight away from the tree in a determined manner as though on a mission — and he is on a mission, with all the pollen he can carry gathered, he is back off to the hive — for the Good of his community, for the Good of the Queen bee, the higher Good.

And then it hits me. This is a scene of perfection. The bees have reached their full potential “Goodness”, and are…