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Moondara
Hey. What's up? I killed a mosquito yesterday. It entered my room and it was near my computer monitor. I instantly decided it had to go because I didn't want it to stay in my room and then bite me at night as I got ready to kill it. A thought came to me. How is this in alignment? So I paused as I caught myself ready to take a life.
00:00:24:18 - 00:00:49:06
Moondara
I quickly justified it as it's just a mosquito and they sting. This summer, as with every summer, I will kill plenty. So I proceeded to kill it anyway, and I was apologizing to the source. I spoke it out loud. I said, sorry, but I don't want to be stung at night. Instantly after the kill, I felt it. Oh, I messed up here.
00:00:49:07 - 00:01:19:10
Moondara
We will need to talk about this one. And it felt like a lesson was queued up and ready to go. So today, I brought it up with the sauce, and I came away with a lesson. It's just a mosquito. A sentence that starts off placing a low value on something. A mosquito, possibly the one insect most of us would justify killing as fair game because of the uncomfortable sting and the itchy lump that follows.
00:01:19:12 - 00:01:42:02
Moondara
They are capable of spreading diseases. So what's the big deal? Well, for me it was the fear of the sting that led me to take action. And end the life of it. As I was doing it, I thought to myself, am I sure I want to do this? Very quickly, I was able to take action to kill it because I justified it as it's just a mosquito.
00:01:42:04 - 00:02:07:19
Moondara
I had to look up. If they spread diseases to be okay with, continue doing it. If they bite me in the summer. But we still have the "it's just" dilemma. It's just a rabbit. It's just a dog. It's just a cow. It's just one person. Here's an example. Two people killed in a shooting. One famous and one non-famous.
00:02:07:21 - 00:02:37:11
Moondara
And the world instantly knows the famous person. And it will get all the coverage. The non-famous person would be a footnote. It's just some guy. In the sources view, they are equal and deserve to be viewed as such. In an aligned world, the report would read two souls lost today at the hands of an unaligned person. When clueless Bob asks the question what did they do for a living?
00:02:37:13 - 00:03:03:13
Moondara
An aligned community would respond in unison: They contributed. It's just wouldn't start a sentence that applies value to living things. They were all created by the source for a purpose, and all are due the respect they deserve. As for the mosquito, it serves as food supply for other animals, including birds and fishes. They also contribute to plant pollination.
00:03:03:15 - 00:03:30:10
Moondara
So this summer, if you get stung by a mosquito, kill it with respect in mind. Sorry, mosquito. Your purpose, fulfilled or not, is now done. Back to the source you go. That aligned world we spoke about may be possible when we all learn to respect the mosquito. This is your cosmic homie Moondara, and I'll catch you on the next one.