Change your Perspective!

Photograph! Bugs! or An Evening Walk?

Help me Choose One!

Should I talk about the Picture itself or the Bug in the image or the sweet memorable experiences over an Evening Walk? I don’t know which one to choose, so I’m going to give you a mix of all.

The Bug:

Nature is everywhere. We just have to apply brakes and slow down to even see those tiny beautiful creatures that help us humans thrive on this Beautiful Planet. That’s how I found him 👇

Let me just give a brief about this “creature” in the image.

I used the Seek app to ID this bug; it’s Eurybrachys.

Eurybrachys is a genus of bugs in the family Eurybrachidae (tribe Eurybrachini), first formally named by the French entomologist, Félix Édouard Guérin-Ménevill, also known as F. E. Guerin, in 1834.

I’m unclear about the name of the species. The best possible match I could find was Eurybrachys tomentosa (Fabricius 1775), commonly found in central to southern India (source Wikipedia).

Even though he looks so pretty, he is regarded as a pest of tropical Asian forestry, causing damage in plantations of sandalwood and Calotropis. The locals call him a leafhopper.

The Picture, Oh! Pick Me:

There was a collection of pictures of bugs in my photo gallery that I had already planned to write about, like an article on entomology. But, today, when I looked at them, I had to shift my idea when this particular image caught my eye and started jumping up high with one arm raised in the air, like the “Talking Donkey” character in the movie, “Shrek” ( 2001 release) jumping and shouting,

Me, Me!

Oh! Pick me!

Oh! I know!

I know! Me! Me!

It’s the part where Shrek unwillingly picks the Talking Donkey to guide him to Lord Farquaad of Duloc.

Now, coming back to the bug story, I just gazed at that particular picture, wondering with mesmerization about Nature’s creation.

Now, if you haven’t seen that bug picture in the beginning, you might have to go back and take a look 👀

Doesn’t he look covered in ice?

Ohh! What a snowy beauty!

Are you from an icy land?

Visiting my neighborhood thorn land?

But, how would you retain that ice on the back?

Until the time you head back?

That picture reminded me of some beautiful, interesting memories. Very adventurous indeed!

The Evening Walk!

A beautiful mind sees beauty in everything and is gifted with eternal happiness!

We have an evening family walking routine, myself with my husband and my son, riding his bicycle. I even lost a few pounds just two months down the line.

It’s the realtor’s land in our neighborhood, the residential plots with a little bit of greenery. No, No, No! You’re mistaken! Are you imagining a beautifully landscaped garden? No, it’s a piece of land covered with wild thorny bushes (Prosopis juliflora). But still, that was heaven for us for almost a year after the lockdown, as it was the only free space in that area of close to 1 acre or more. It was located very close to one of the busiest, thickly populated IT centers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

The memories gathered there are priceless!

It was at that spot where my son practiced for his mud race at age 5 (the year 2018).

A few months thereafter, he began to practice skidding, and other stunts like track stand and dirt jumping at age 7 (the year 2020). Again, don’t mistake me for some well-maintained mountain biking trails. These are the common residential streets I am talking about. In most of the places here in India, even newly developed areas, you can see roads like these.

But, as you can see, it turned out to be a boon for us.

Hide and Seek!

So, while my son enjoyed his time cycling, making sure he covers all the streets of every plot, on the other side, I would sometimes sneak out into the “pretend jungle,” the plots in between the streets, and get busy playing hide and seek with those tiny, colorful creatures hiding under the leaves. Of course, my son would join me, every time he passes by, and help me find them and try to interact with those beauties. Sometimes, it would turn into a topic of 🔬 research.

After the image-capturing session through the lens of my eyes, the greedy me would move on to capture through the lens of my camera as well.

Here’s a display of some other tiny creatures from that piece of land.

Life is Beautiful!

The roads were rough and rocky with ruts and potholes, bordered with trench and fallen poles, and polka dot decoration of thorny bushes and Parthenium that would gift us sneezes and itchiness in the eye.

Yet, that place is (at least temporarily) home to hundreds of tiny lovely creatures and a feeding ground for numerous birds!

And for us, a heaven filled with million-dollar happiness! Opened up new opportunities!

At that place, both our everyday travel and everyday life happened to be more and more “adventurous” giving us more thrilling and joyful experiences. Yes, very adventurous including the pandemic. Yet, we just learned to live every moment, finding happiness in everything, everywhere, even in the ground of thorns. We survived.

The outcome purely depends on how we tune ourselves to deal with any situation.

The time you realize the fact that “You” are your own creator, the sculptor, you can start sculpting your own life the way you want to live!

Nothing else matters.

Challenges in life? Either face it or just ignore it!

More Challenges? Just Laugh Out Loud!

Life is so beautiful! Just change the angle of your lens a bit and align your heart and mind to it, and then you’ll see it and feel it!

Live it to the fullest! 🙏

Hope you enjoyed the read! Spread Love! Spread Happiness!

👇Check this out if you want to know the story of our Christmas tree!