OH boy, what a girly title, hahahaha can’t believed I had actually thought of it and put it down some more, wahahah!!!
Anyway, yup yup yup, is about FIREFLIES!!! Man, as you know (OK not all are aware), recently I just came back from a working trip at Kota Tinggi Waterfall Resort, Malaysia. I was conducting a 4 days - 3 nights Training Workshop for a neighbour school. One of the night was actually spend on going on a Night Fireflies Cruise.
We were in a small boat that can hold up to 20 people and the boat owner was the guide of the cruise. So with our life jacket on and comfortably seated, the whole group were off to see the fireflies.
Well, it was not the first time I saw fireflies, the last time I saw it was many years back when I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we were in a village sitting at one of the high points, and right in front of us, was a big group of fireflies blinking and shining at us, some even flew past us, it was such a lovely sight.
This time round, it was slightly different, we were on the boat and we were cruising along the Johor River. I was hoping the sight we were going to see, could matched what I saw in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
After about 15 mins cruising down the river, the “ah peK” the captain and owner of the boat started to shout in mandarin”OK, people, stay silent and switch off all the camera light we are approachingthe fireflies real soon”, With a right turn of the boat, and from the corner of my eyes, I saw a magnificence sight, the river banks on my right was suddenly brighten up and blinking at us, it was like the whole forest were being decorated with Christmas lighting, it’s like walking down Orchard Rd with all the lighting blinking and shining back at us. There were easily thousands of them covering the forests. As we cruising along, they were more both on the left and right at the river banks.
It was really beautiful, as the cruise went on the mood of the crowd were starting to change from an initial of pure excitement to a form of quiet, smoothing admiration of the beauty of the mother nature.
this was when my head started thinking, I was like “Wow, this tiny insect that’s gives up light can actually brighten up the darkness and create a beautiful sencery with its lights, what an amazing creature” and to know that fireflies doesn’t really live long, some people said they only last for about a week - 2 months and some only last for a few hours make me even wonder more, “why even create this insect, what was its purpose to be here, was it just to give up lights or were they here to send us a message?”
Hahaha, somebody say i always think too much, and probably that is true. but really, I can’t help it, i was thinking if I’m the firefly, why live? When I know that I don’t live for more than 2 months, what’s the point and all I do is to give out lights?? I might as well just die.
Ha, but the other side me me is telling me that if I’m really a firefly, and I do know I have only 2 months to live, I will guaranteed that I will give out more of my light and shines even brighter! and the point I know that my light can lit up darkness and it can offered a beautiful scenery for others to appreciate. I know that my light can make 20 people on a boat to go “Ahh… that’sso nice” and I know that because of my light, the “Ah Pek” can earn his living by bringing people to see my light. And that’s why, If I’m really a firefly and have only 2 months of lifespan, I will LIVE and SHINES!!
What about you? if you are a firefly and have 2 months to live, will you just wait to die or you will LIVE and SHINES! If the answer is the latter, then who and what is your light shining for? Is it for your loved one, your family or even the community. Can you be the light that lights up another person’s darkest moment?
I know I can and I know who and what my light is shining for and Yes, I will live and shine bright, and I want the people around to shine too and that’s because, it is not the effort of one firefly but the efforts of thousands of individual shining firefly that can create the full strecth of riverbank that’s blinking and shining bright in the darkness of the forest. 
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