ShadowTheRaven said:
Personal Growth said:
If you believe you are too small to make a difference, you have never spent the night with a mosquito.
- African Proverb.
I don't get it. Is it because that mosquito can kill you?
No that's not how I saw it. But very true that certain mosquitos can poison and kill a person.
It's more the idea that a mosquito is this tiny little speck of a flying buzzing insect.
And as small and tiny as it is. It has a huge impact on keeping you awake.
You swat it away and moments later it's buzzing again around your head.
And you keep putting your head under the covers but it's hot and there's no air under the cover.
So it tortures you because it keeps coming back and buzzing around your head.
And the major problem is that you can't just ignore it and sleep anyway because once it lands on your face it will bite you and start sucking on your blood leaving a great big swollen lump on your skin.
The mozzies in South Africa weren't the dangerous malaria carrying type but boy only just one can be a huge pest that keeps you awake all night.
People would burn poison lit things like incense. Or special pesticide pads placed in an electrical appliance that made a poison smell on the air to chase them away. A few even tried putting up lace curtains all around their beds to keep the mosquito pests off of them.
Same principle as getting an eyelash in your eye. Get a small speck of an eye lash in your eye. And no matter how big and strong a man is that little speck causes him great discomfort. And he's propelled to take it out and cannot ignore it even though it's so small.
Buzzz, bzzz, bzzzz. Ahhhah it never stops.
Mosquitoes are something I enjoy not suffering with anymore here in the UK.
The nights were very hot and humid. And there was no air. But you had to keep the windows shut at night or the mozzies would come in and bother you.