Little Black ants saved my Eyes

Little Black ants saved my Eyes

This is dedicated to the tiny animals (plants included) that we barely see with the naked eye.

Unfortunately, to see the microbes we need a satisfactory microscope.

That alone is not enough we need to kill them, fix them and stain them.

All important cells are white and transparent to light to protect them from light and energy rays.

Only few cells carry pigments that protect cells and confine them to important energy transfer systems.

Reason being we cannot see cells unless they contain a pigment that our eyes can see (light is a spectrum of many energy forms, unfortunately human eye can see only a tiny part of the spectrum; this is true for hearing and smell too) or we do deliberately use at least (Blue and Red) two pigments which our eyes can distinguish.

The computer can distinguish millions of colour shades but our eyes can contrast 16 colour shades for sure and 256 with some difficulty.

This is to express the man's visual limitations.

The black ant means that it takes all the colours in with its pigments and leave us nothing to see inside it except its outline in tiny visual forms.

That is for its protection to indicate there are other form of life not only humans on this planet.

This tiny article is to highlight the danger of plastics and fire.

Fire is a universal hazard, I need not elaborate.

Plastic is a bigger hazard than fire.

Fire is useful in converting the things that are not bio-degradable to elements and oxides.

Plastics is a polymer without an enzyme to break it bonds.

We can break it by burning only at the expense producing toxic elements and reactive toxic elements that deplete ozone layer.

Now coming back to another risk of burning plastics and many plastic containers, they can explode without any warning.

That is what happened to me.

I wanted to get rid of the one week collection of perishables.

I took all the normal precautions.

Dog was safely away and iron fence locked.

All the papers sorted out.

All the plastic bottles washed and dry and tops removed.

All the yogurt and ice cream cartoons washed and no ants.

Then I set fire to the first set and came back to the pantry to add few more remaining items.

That set was from my wife with lot of ants in them.

I took it to the fire place and was six feet (my risk taking distance) away from the burning fire.

I started separating food containing items with ants and items without ants to be put to the the fire.

There was impending rain.

I was in a bit of a rush and not paying attention.

Moment Meditation not taken care!

All of a sudden there was an explosion.

My body not facing front on, but the left side of the body got a shower of burning plastic projectiles and the biggest one landed on my right forehand.

I did not have a bucket of water near me.

I usually keep a tiny bucket full of water for an emergency. 

With the rain impending that was not considered necessary.

by the time I reached the water tap, the tiny explosive was firmly glued to my skin and the skin burned to full depth.

There was a shower of tiny plastic pellets on my head, hair, and the left side of the neck.

I stop counting.

I usually wear a short for outdoor work.

With some luck I was wearing a sarong.

Lot of tiny pellets had taken shelter of my sarong and making tiny holes of forensic importance imprinted for posterity, in case of an unexpected fire and I succumbed to it.

For my luck the rain was coming down.

I let the rain drops fall on me with meditative attention.

If I was not focusing on the tiny black ants, the shower of plastic pellets would ave been directly on my eyes and I would not be writing this piece.

Who says 'Bit of Metta' has no pace in this world of ours.

Even, the mother nature is with you (rain in this case) if one is in harmony with the nature.

Half an our later when I was brushing my hair, I noticed partially burned hair.

How fickle is the life on earth for tiny beings, just like my partially burnt hair.

I would like to reflect on it, now and in the future.