Zero to Hero or Is It Hero to Zero?

It was almost 2 in the morning but you decided to read an article about “How The World Sleeps” before you hit the hay sack. The ticking of the cuckoo clock echoed around the house and it sounded extra evident as it refracted through the cooler and denser air of the night. As you lay back comfortably on the sofa in the upper floor, the ceiling fan above worked its mechanism away as it cooled you down.

By then, the house was very much consumed in grave silence as everyone had long gone to bed, burying themselves under thick comforters that gave them warmth in the air-conditioned room of theirs. Nothing could you hear but the squeaking sound of the ceiling fan and the ticking of the clocks that filled the faces of the walls in your living room. 

Moments later, you were so caught up in the facts presented in the article that all the sounds you previously heard had drown out. It was as though the sounds had hit a cycle that’s beyond the hearing range of human, which is 20,000 hertz.

All day long, you had been on a movie marathon and obviously, there wasn’t any time spared for a short siesta. On top of that, you had embraced a strenuous exercising program recently that you had relinquished 2 years ago, plus you have been sleeping at late hours since the beginning of the Summer semester. That accounted for the indescribable lethargy you were feeling. Your muscles were aching as though an army of hungry termites was feeding viciously on it.

Halfway through the article, you began to feel a little drowsy as the words sank in. Determined, you shook your head vigorously to stay awake for another minute in order to finish up the article. Just then, you paused upon hearing a familiar buzzing sound. You looked around but nothing came into sight. “Damn it!” you thought. That bug not only invaded your space, but it took control of your concentration.

Out of a sudden, the buzzing sound started once again. Louder this time, which means it’s flying close. It came into contact with your feet and you flinched. You shifted your concentration towards the floor immediately but all you could see was a flying thing that disappeared into the hanging towels in front of you. Frustrated. You could not identify the bug as it intelligently used the wooden-tiled ground as camouflage.

You knew it had not landed as the buzz indicated. You tried hard so as not to be distracted by it and continued your reading. “Was it doing it with intentions?”  you wondered, after you were attacked for the second time. *Changing “you” to “I.” * I sat up and asked myself, “What the f*** was that?”

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Creepy bugs I hate. If you think that as a guy, I shouldn’t be afraid of small bugs, think again. Bugs are so minute in their sizes that you wouldn’t know what are they going to do next. I bet most of the time, you have to take a closer look to identify the bug.

Seriously, there’s nothing heroic about not being afraid of bugs. If you are just so afraid to admit to girls that bugs scare the hell out of you, then you are just plain dumb. Let me give you examples.

Let’s say you and a girl are having an evening walk in a park near your house. The girl saw an insy-winsy spider hanging down from a tree, she screams and runs away. You acting heroic, told her it’s only a small insect and the next thing you know, it bites you and you are poisoned because the spider is no ordinary spider and is poisonous. Hero to Zero.

Another example. The girl saw a bee, she screams and runs away. You acting heroic again, told her it’s just a small bee. The next thing you know, the bee stings you in the neck that gotten you a swollen neck for the next one month or more. Hero to Zero.

3rd example. While eating with the girl, there’s a fly flying around that scares the hell out of her. She screams again and you acting heroic again, told her it’s only a small fly. The next thing you know, the fly just flies into your ear and comfortably breeds its eggs. After a week, all the eggs hatch and worms start to crawl out of your ear. How disgusting is that? Hero to Zero.

So guys, don’t act stupid. Don’t give up safety for dignity. Agree or not? Leave a comment. =)