stop and look

What can be more beautiful than a solitary bird waddling about on a vacant land that's dense with vehicular traffic and buildings - nothing.

We speak of animals being pests and encroaching upon our turf, without realising that in fact, we, the humans, have gatecrashed on land that belonged to them first.

I was never really fascinated with birds before, simply because they would always fly off, even before you could admire their plumage. That is before I acquired birds and shared my home with them. The wonder of evolution - they can fly and if you ever get a chance to feel their wing, you would appreciate how it's 'built' different from the rest of their feathers. Flight wings are solid and densely packed and for some species, extremely attractive because of their colour.

But I do wonder why nature would have colourful wings on birds, when the human eye is not always able to look at it in awe. It's like saying, that there is no need to 'show off' at all. Perhaps it's about modesty too.

What we have, we tend to want to share that on a 'public' platform, but there is no necessity to. If we have it, we have it.

The birds have beautiful wings, yet they don't strut around with it extended at all - unless they are pitting against another bird and feeling endangered. So maybe we should do the same - there is not necessity to 'show our colour' unless provoked.

Whatever nature's reason, nature did it right.

You are not able to see beauty, until you stop and spend some time looking at it.

Most real things are not obvious - because it's never meant to be.