Sparrows and humans
July 31, 2009
Have you ever looked at a bird seeking for food or at a children playing alone?
Has ever happened that while you were looking at them, jumping all around, seeking for food or fun, there was someone talking about “important” facts?
Some days ago it happened to me.
I was having lunch, and as usually some sparrow came to eat their lunch too… that day, as always, TV was on.
A journalist was talking about economy, I actually understood nothing more than “it’s going bad”. It wasn’t a nice information, definitely!
The bird kept on eating and drinking water, looking at that threatening sunshade that waved close to the food plate. The little guy kept on waiting for the proper moment (when the sunshade is steady enough) to catch the food and go to peacefully eat it in the safer pine pot.
The bird surely couldn’t care about that information, how could it? How could a sparrow understand economy or anything else about the human world? Could it solve any of those problems? No.
At the same time nobody could care about that bird, if it was having enough food that day, if it was dying or not. Why should we?
I feel like that bird, not important or useful…
…but…
If sparrows have been created, and they have the instinct to look for food or to “pay attention” to threatening sunshades, all in order to survive and go ahead… there must be a reason.
Therefore, why should I give up? Why should I stop eating, drinking or just stop trying to do and get the best I can?
Important, strong or successful people rarely care about showing to others that being “important”, being “strong”, and being “successful” it is nice, it helps, but it isn’t what define the “worth” of a person.
Some, or most, of them forget that life is worth. That’s all they should remember.
They are the same people that lead this world, they set it up… making people, like me, feeling really uneasy with the idea to fail, to become “nothing”.
And I think God gets sad more or less in the same way for the dying sparrow, for the depressed man and for the one who is being mean or forgetful about important things… but he surely caress all of them, even when they just drink water…
That’s a reason that makes me hope to come back to take pictures: it makes me easier to see God caress.
