As I travel, I come across situations and things I have never experienced before, culture, language, eating habits, beliefs, animals and creatures, flowers and plants.
Yesterday as I walked around my garden in the home in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia, I came across a couple of strange looking creatures that I would not experience in the UK.
To me they were initially shocking, repulsive, frightening, as my brain searched to find previous experiences of exposure to such creatures, and that had only been in a zoo, and the creatures had been behind thick glass.
Why had they been behind thick glass?
Perhaps they are dangerous, poisonous, they bite, they will grab you by the throat and choke you to death.
No. I think it was to protect them from us, the human race, the beings that tries to eradicate or dismiss those things that it does not understand or like, and there I was standing, with these creatures all about me.
They were not about to attack me. I expect they were watching me, anticipating my next move, as I suspect they are more frighten of me, than me of them.
Think about it, we are the monsters, with big eyes, large tentacles (fingers and toes) searching the air on long extensions to the body (arms and legs), giving off strange odours, (body sweat or Chanel No. 5), with bad breath (toothpaste, cigarette smoke), making strange sounds (talking), and being covered in multi coloured objects (clothes) to camouflage the monsters body. See us from a small creators view point.
In fact they are so frighten of me, it was difficult to get photographs of them, they flew or ran off.
As we experience new environments, creatures, situations and people, let us be more tolerant to them, perhaps they are allien to our world, beliefs or way of life, perhaps us to theirs.
Who is the monster?
Read about UFO’s over London. Click. Perhaps they are Martians like The War of the Worlds.