Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tea Time With Crickets

Sora__Tea_Time_With_Jiminy_by_nikko2nick
The picture was too amusing not to share.  I believe nothing I say about it can improve upon it but only detract so I'll let you just enjoy it... I'll wait...

Ok, to the matter at hand, I have a request but need to explain why first.

I had to download a "White Noise" app on my phone, long story and not the point so I'll skip it.  One of the sounds you can choose to put you to sleep is the sounds of crickets.  I layed awake for a brief while thinking about how frustrating the sound of one cricket can be but the sound of a collection of them sweeps me back to cool nights by a campfire or sleeping at a cabin by a creek in the woods by where I grew up.  I am content and I drift off feeling as carefree as I did in those moments.

This begs the question, why do we hate that ONE cricket that we can't find or just won't die?  Is it because a collection of crickets sounds like a symphony but one is just obnoxious?  Or is it because we just can't put our finger on it but there's something a little "off" with that cricket and that must be why he was exiled from all his buddy crickets?  Or maybe, deep down we're worried this is our own personal Jiminy Cricket and we want to squash that son of b*tch as soon as possible!

I think someone should write a song about this.  I think that would be neat.  Maybe Disney would buy it.