Lesson of Life From A Little Kid …

Can a little kid teach you a lesson of life?

Well, yes. That’s what had happened back then.

I was around a swimming pool when I noticed this little kid. I have to admit that I didn’t really notice her as she was just a common little girl playing with her peers in the water, and I was waiting for someone else and couldn’t stand the boredom of waiting and then I turned my attention around, and noticed some cheerful little kids playing with waters.

There was nothing special because I had seen this excitement everytime I went to the pool area. But that day was exceptional when that kid suddenly stopped laughing and paid attention to something.

And my eyes also caught something in the swimming pool near them. Some movement and it seemed like some certain insect had fallen down to the water and struggled to survive to keep on the surface.

That little kid, ignored her peers suddenly and swam towards the small living thing that still struggled for life.

And I would never forget that day, when I watched this little kid cupped her hand under the water and lifted the poor little insect up and put it to a dry area at the side of the swimming pool. I could hear her peers were mocking: “Hey, it’s just an insect, oh, come on, do you really need to save it?”

“Yes,” she said, “It has a life too.”

“It’s just an insect. Who cares if it will still be alive or dead?” the other said.

“Well, at least I care,” she said. And I could also hear the exclamation of disagreement from her peers before she continued her words.

And then she continued, “Just think about myself, back then when I wasn’t able to swim, I got trouble in the water, and nobody noticed that I needed help at that time. If Papa didn’t come to rescue me, I would have ended up like that insect would have, if I listened to your words to ignore the insect.”

I think I noticed the abrupt silence among the kids, and even some grown ups were watching.

Well, there was such a tension between them, before the insect started its first fly after its ‘near death experience’. And I have to admit that somehow I was grateful that the kid had been there when it was struggling for survival from the water. It seemed like The Great One Above There had appointed this kid to be the insect’s savior.

I saw the little girl smiling as she watched the insect finally made its flight. I just couldn’t keep myself from smiling too …

I have to admit, I love animals but not insects. However, that day I found a lesson of life from a little girl. I learned that whatever you called something as, as long as he / she / it had the life, it was still worth to save them.

Not only plants, not only insects, not only animals, not only the grown ups that already can think or talk or respond you, not only the children who can shout back at you …

The little girl surely had voiced out the multi-million lives who could never voice out for themselves. Those that were abandoned till the end of their breath, a lot of them were even murdered in silence, by those who didn’t want to admit that they murdered. Both victims were the animals and a lot of little creatures whom were forsaken by humanity … in the name of the right and freedom of the same humanity.

To whom it may concern, please think about it. Even a little kid know the value of “worthless” creature’s life. Don’t you think that a baby is worth more than insect?

Or do you think that both of this girl and the insect had chosen to fall into the water? Or … do you even think that a baby has chosen to come to a womb belongs to someone who would abort them?

This is a lesson of life from a little kid. And she didn’t say anything about ‘having choice’ to save or to not save. She was talking about herself ‘caring about it’, which meant that she would have not cared about the insect and herself if she decided to let it die.

If she had decided to let the insect die when she knew this little creature needed help for survival, then it meant she implied that she wished her Papa should have never saved her out of the water either, and should have let her drown back then.

If she had done it … do you think that her Papa would wish … that back then he had never saved her out of the water and should have let her drown instead?

You judge it.