"Silkworms"
Have you ever seen a silkworm? Do you know how it is grown for harvesting? When I first learnt of it, I was pretty amazed myself. Little grubs with only a mouth and a pair of ears ate and ate and ate till they are ready to spin a cocoons around themselves. Of course that is the end of most of them. But some superior examples among each nests of cocoons are allowed to live for the purpose of mating and reproducing the next generation.
Usually when we thinking about cocoons, we would expect to see an insect with wings to emerge, but when we see a silkworm emerge from its cocoon, all we see is still a grub! On closer inspection, we will see a pair of tiny feathery thingys that resemble wings. Yes, they are wings but they can't fly. And they have a mouth too but they can't eat either. All they do is mate till death.
Humans are so much alike silkworms. Like them, we are concerned with food, a roof over our head and sex. How we wish we can obtain these without pain. And so these silkworms look upon the person whom feed them and take care of them as the all mighty god that we humans wish for and pray to. And so we complain why we can't have what we pray for, why can't we have a good life, why can't we have money, food, everything we want without working for them.
But let's think about it. Do we really want to be silkworms? Sure, we would love to have every necessities without putting in any effort for them. But eventually, any faculty unused will gradually die away. Do we want to have wings that cannot be used for flying and mouths that cannot be used for eating? Do we want to be reduced to just a grub?
