Before we start this article, let's play a game of guessing riddles:
A slender and long dragon, hiding in the fertile soil every day, no hands and no feet will labor, drilling to loosen the soil. (Hit an animal)
Enigma: Earthworm,
Did you guess right?
When it comes to earthworms, everyone's first impression is that they are stupid and know how to punch holes. Of course, it can also be used as bait for people to go fishing. In addition, it seems that no other features can be found.
In life, few people will pay attention to earthworms, after all, this animal does not give a very good impression, no teeth, no feet, no bones, deaf and blind, squirming body looks creepy, in short, the vast majority of people are disgusted with it.
But you know what? This disgusting animal still has a cute side, at least in the pen of the Italian writer Noemi Wola, this poor worm earthworm has attracted everyone's attention.
In "The Life of a Poor Worm", in addition to sticking to a career hole in his life, the earthworm also has many cute and loving sides.
This little book records the various habits of the earthworms and how they react when they face dangers and some emergencies... Please, please, please don't wear this poor little life on the hook as bait anymore.
1, existence, is meaningful
The presence of earthworms seems to be a joke.
It's like "Peppa Pig" in "A little bug twisting around." ”
But the dinosaurs that have disappeared for hundreds of thousands of years, or the cute national treasures in the zoo, or the terrifying mosquitoes have become people's chat regulars.
And about earthworms. It's not that we don't know it, it's that we don't care about its existence at all.
In this society, everything is spiritual and lovely. We should have a pair of eyes like Noemi who are good at finding beauty.
There are many earthworms on Earth, and you can see them everywhere on the roads after the rain. Together, there are more than 7,000 species.
You see Noemi Wola painted too many members of the earthworm family with imaginary wings, and there are proud earthworm brothers with glasses; Mothers with baby earthworms on their backs; There are earthworm classmates playing with bubbles; And the winged earthworm sister...
Looking at these cute and cute earthworms, I have imagined countless other pictures of earthworms in my mind, and it can be said that it is really too suitable for children's painting enlightenment.
Noemi Wola also said that the earthworm's body can be completed with a single line, and then a finger is poked with a little paint, and the body of the earthworm is smeared on the paper. At this time, draw a variety of expressions and hairstyles, and then some costumes and props, and the little earthworm in the children's mind will be born!
Do you know? In the imaginative world, there are also many famous stars on the earthworm's territory! These illustrations are interesting and full of imagination, opening the door to the world of our imagination and inspiring us at the same time.
2. Your persistence, though defeated, is still glorious
Earthworms exist as if they were digging holes.
Earthworms are very simple animals, their bodies vary in length, some short, some long, some short, some very long. In every corner of our lives. Whether by the sea, in the desert, in the forest or on the side of the road, earthworms lurk in the soil.
Even though there are too many lurking earthworms around us, we still don't see them very often. Compared with other invertebrate siblings, such as bees, such as ants, earthworms seem to be a bit unambitious, they don't build hives, they don't build ant graves, they only dig holes.
This ordinary "little bug", in this life, did not know why he was alive, but despite this, he still did the activity that interested him as an arrogant loner: digging holes.
In this life, they had no tools, no teeth to resist enemies, no hard shells, no sharp claws, and even no tools to dig holes, but they still did not give up the activity of digging holes.
Earthworms spend most of their time digging holes, and you, me, and even him probably don't know why, maybe to find something, maybe to realize their dreams, maybe they have to suffer...
But it seems that only we humans know that the end of the soil is still the soil, and the end of the soil is still the soil.
This poor earthworm, born a small worm, was still a small worm after death, and he did not experience a moment in his life the feeling of becoming a butterfly.
But I don't know why, but it still gives people a sense of awe.
Man, if you want to have some earthworms' persistence and persistence in digging holes in this life, why don't you worry about doing a good job? How can there be so many people lying flat and complaining about themselves?
The earthworms that are rejected by us humans may also despise you and me with strange eyes. What about being higher than me? Still not doing nothing?
3, the earthworm this mirror, worthy of you and me to look at
Earthworms are intelligent, no dumber than people.
We all know that earthworms live in the soil most of the time, but when it rains heavily, they will come to the ground silently by breathing on their skin, so that they can avoid drowning in the soil by the rain.
But how can earthworms without any self-protection equipment survive the brutal and relentless struggle? You know, their natural enemies are always looking for them, chickens, hedgehogs, frogs, centipedes, and shrews that never look at the road when they walk.
Do you think they're not afraid? They are also afraid that their pink coat will expose them and become the food of others. So they will find ways to hide and protect themselves.
At the same time, they would lie quietly on the grass, as if they were enjoying the weather, but in fact it was not the case, and when they were frightened by thunderstorms and lightning, they would also be sad, uneasy, and afraid.
Especially when losing its tail, the earthworm will be sad, afraid, confused, and begin to doubt itself.
In Noemi Wola's pen, the earthworm with its tail cut off came to the mirror and found that it was no longer recognizable who it was. Who am I? What am I like? Is it half? Or a whole root?
Fortunately, this decadent day after the thunderstorm is not very long, and the earthworm will come out of the haze as quickly as possible.
He decided not to be himself anymore, he was going to turn into shoelaces, rings, bookmarks, candles, lasso in the hands of western cowboys...
But it wasn't enough, he wanted to be strong, he wanted to grow teeth, he wanted to grow big, he wanted to roar, he even wanted to become a hard stone.
Along the way, earthworms have experienced too much, they will be as confused as humans, they will be sad, they will be sad, they will despair, but they have never given up on themselves.
They will reconcile with themselves, they will accept the imperfect self with a broken tail.
Then one day, bravely shout out in front of everyone! Oh......
Write at the end:
Looking at the title, "The Life of a Poor Worm: A Very Interesting History of Earthworms," you would think that this is a book about popular science earthworms, but in fact, when you open this pink book, you will find that this book is far more simple than popular science earthworms.
Simple earthworms actually live an ordinary life like humans. We run for work, they live to dig holes.
As Lu Yao said: "In fact, each of our lives is a world, and even the most ordinary people have to fight for the world in which he lives."
No one is smarter than anyone, no one is stupider than anyone, it's all about living well, that's all.
It's just the earthworms in Noemi Vola's paintings, like our own human beings.
In the face of an uncertain future, we will also be like earthworms, confused and lose ourselves.
It's just that more often than not, we lack the perseverance to be decisive like earthworms, the spirit of not giving up on ourselves even if we are disabled, and the persistence of that passion for dreams.
This life, a little long;
But the rest of life, a little short;
I hope that we can all be like earthworms, do what we like, don't care about the rumors of the outside world, and insist on realizing our dreams, even if this dream is not worth mentioning.
Finally, I want to thank Noemi Wola and this poor worm earthworm.
Let us see the self who is desperate to fight for the dream, and also see the brave self in the face of adversity.
Author: Enron, freelance writer, you bring the story, I bring wine, meet together to go to the mountains and rivers...