I could not
help but be drawn into the story of Simon Gittany the guy
accused of murdering his girlfriend Lisa Cecilia Harnum by making her fall from
the balcony of their apartment in Sydney. It would seem that he was a
controlling and manipulative individual from evidence given at his committal
hearing in Sydney this week. Why do people want to control other people? It
seems that he did everything to control her life possibly so that he could have
her for himself? I don’t know.
It made me think of an incident that happened to a friend this week. My friend had an interesting experience this week when a tiny visitor called in. When she got up in the morning and went outside to water the plants she found, hanging from the roof of the veranda a tiny brown micro bat.
It was fascinating the way people reacted to my friends
Facebook posts and this tiny visitor. While common in the area they are seldom seen
close up and the reaction to its presence was thought-provoking.
When she posted photos on face book the conversation was exciting
as the comments started to flow. While my friend would never hurt it the first reaction
from many was to make it a pet and catch it.
People are funny when it comes to wild things the first
reaction for many of us is to control them, tame them make them our own. I
guess this is so that we are able to enjoy them under a controlled situation.
Maybe it is so that we are able to extend the enjoyment it brings us, so we are
able to experience the event the next day or the day after that. Maybe it’s so
that others can’t have them and we get to keep the experience to ourselves.
Over the day there was a flurry of text and photos and
little updates. When she got home from work that afternoon she found the little
bat still there sound asleep and another flurry of face book posts and texts
appeared. Then later in the evening the final post to say that it had flown away
and was gone.
It’s not often that we are given the gift to experience
something special without looking for it, particularly something as exclusive
and mysterious as a bat. For this little bat to make its home for a day in her
house gave her a little insight into another living creature’s world not contrived
not enforced but voluntarily, however inadvertently it came into her world.
Judging from the amount of Facebook traffic and the level of
conversation generated and the number of photos the joy the event created was
obvious and would be difficult to replicate under any other circumstances. It
just goes to show that sometimes the simplest things can bring joy and you
don’t necessity need to own them, possess them or control them to gain it.
Often people come into our lives just like the bat,
unexpected. They are there for a while and we have the chance to enjoy them and
gain a special insight into their lives and share something special sometimes even
the people around us get to enjoy them. It may not last and we find one day it
is gone but what it can add to your life is something that you can’t pay for, can’t
be forced and sometimes can’t even be repeated. I am sure we have all tried to
hold on to people when we shouldn’t at some point in our lives, we try and
catch them and possess them I know I have and for that I say I am sorry.
It would seem that for Lisa and her family their time
together has been cut short by someone who wanted to own and possess her
instead of standing back and enjoying the gift.
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