I like to eat everything woods and dry
grass. Humans do not like me because I
destroy their buildings, trees, and flowers. They try to kill me with all kind
of chemical liquids but they do not know that I must feed myself and my colony
with those shorts of materials.
Humans call me “termite” or “white ant” because
I am in the family of ant but I am also different from ant. We build our house
in the ground near wood and we live in the group. People call our group is a
colony of termites or white ants. We do not like to stay alone because our enjoyment
and surviving depend on other termites, however, we don’t like to mingle with termites
from other colony. In our colony we have our king and queen, eggs, larvae, soldiers,
workers, and nymphs.
Our king and queen come from nymphs and when the
nymphs have had matured wings, they are called “swarmers”. Then, they will
leave our colony and fly to find lights. There they will find their destiny;
they will find their partner and at the end they will be king and queen to
start new colony. Therefore, they meet each other for the first time usually on
the beginning of the rainy season and after pairing-up, they shed their wings
and start finding chamber near wood for queen to lay eggs. During this time
king and queen take care of eggs and these eggs will develop to become
termite-workers. Thus, cycle of our life as termites begins again.
You, humans can learn from us, termites. Our
presence and our cycle of life could teach you something about life itself.
Life is about struggle to survive. We know deeply inside of us that many would
like to have us around them and that our body could offer nutrition for some
insects. However, we do not hide ourselves by stopping ourselves doing our
duties; the termites-workers must seek and look for the food; the solders
protect our colony, and our queen always produces eggs for the future of the
colony. So please, you, humans, do not give up your life but do the best for
your colony (your country). You must strive for the best for your country even
there are so many challenges and difficulties that try to destroy your colony.
We, termites, follow our destiny. As termites
we never dream to become other insects or animals. We know that one day some of
us will start their own colony as termites; we follow each process of life as a
process of making us ready to be a king and queen. However, each process of our
beings starting from beings eggs, larvae, soldiers or workers, and beings
nymphs and then to beings king or queen, is a normal process of our life as
termites. We imagine that after leaving the colony because of our growing of
wings we could become a butterfly but it never happens. We actually leave the
colony to become independent king and queen to start another cycle of termites’
colony. Therefore, humans, you have your destiny, but you must know that you
cannot be God or high humans. Your destiny is to become independent humans who
will start your own life and begin your own colony (family). You leave your
“nets” in order to start your own life. But the process of learning has been
prepared for you, i.e. the process of socialization and education, in your
humans’ system. Therefore, you, humans, should form humanly system that enables
your members in each level to participate in actualize their being humans.
Looking from our point of view as termites, I
could imagine that humans can have bright future to fulfil their purpose as
humans by searching and looking for “lights”. Why I said so because we,
termites, we find our true partners when we come closer to light. In this light
we find our call of being king and queen. Thus, humans can find their true call
of becoming “king and queen” in your society by coming closer to light.
Remember that light offers opportunities for that purpose but at the same time
it attracts dangers that can stop and destroy it because it happens to us as termites.
We come to light and find our true partner there but in light also many of us
lose their life because so many predators waiting to destroy our life.
Who is your light? Termites find light, created
and provided by humans, but you, humans, must have a light. It can be your
faith and believe; it can be your family and friends; it can be something
important. However, the function of light is to lead you to find your true self
and to find your destiny. So please, don’t stop your selves looking at the
present condition of yourselves but this present state of yours can lead you to
another stage of your life journey, where you will find your self-actualization,
to be king or queen. Take care.
