I was walking along the walkway at our block here in Tiong Bahru one morning when all of a sudden I saw this bizaare looking bird just a few inches away from me. It looked so bizaare that I was totally shocked by its form, that my mind has identified it as rather ugly. That has never left my memory eversince, for I have never seen such a funny looking bird before.
This afternoon when I was walking along Orchard Road after coming from Pure at Ngee Ann City, there was this exhibit about Singapore's Biodiversity, where you can see enlarged photos of animals and insects that you can actually see in Singapore. And in one of these photos, tadaaaa! - that funny looking bird! It is actually called a "Stork-billed Kingfisher". I love it! I just love how life expresses itself in different forms and how it evolves with the changing times. I love how nature can surprise us in way that cannot be understood by the mind at times. I mean, how can such a bird exist? Well, nature would say "WHY NOT!" haha. Yup, why not!
It is sometimes funny how the mind would associate the word "normal" or the "norm" to things, when nature should be the one suggesting the norm. How the collective that we call "society", can actually dictate the "norm" or even label it as "made by God", when nature should be the one telling us what is. The mind is very tricky sometimes, and we sometimes come to a life that can be filled with judgement brought about by how our minds were conditioned through time. As to what Lao Tzu has said, "If you are to choose from the dictates of society or nature, choose nature, for it will always win". I have always believed that the path of nature has always been the path of the divine.
Why should a person like me exist? Well, I think you know what mother nature would say now.
Namaste.
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