The smallest things can trigger the greatest memories

Its a wonderful beauty in life that the smallest things, to most people insignificant, can take you flying back to your memories. For some it could be a familiar smell of sauce cooking and instantly there back to their childhood. Remembering playing in the family room with their cousins while their mother, aunts and grandmother are in the kitchen preparing Sunday dinner. For others it could be a fork on a desolate country road. For me it was seeing this bug on the side of my house while playing in the pool with my family.

Even though its been 24 years, one look at this insect and I was six years old again. My brother @lokii and I, at grandmas house, two explorers ready for an expedition through the vast untamed wilderness that was her backyard. There was a forest, too vast to comprehend, what seemed at the time like a cliff leading down to a raging river (its crazy how big everything seems when your so little). If you went far enough into the forest you could find the remains of old structures, undistinguishable what they were at this point, and our favorite, an old dilapidated car. We would spend hours at the creek catching crawfish, minnows, salamanders and the occasional snake. We were in our glory, with all the new and exciting things we could ask for.

One day while exploring at grandmas we found this extremely unique and interesting bug, an Eyed Click Beetle (Alaus Oculatus ) , and we were intrigued. We spent the next 3 hours playing with it, flipping it on it back and watching it impossibly flip into the air with a loud click and land perfectly upright every time. To our six and seven year old minds, there was no way this insect could have been discovered. How could something this awesome be out there and everyone not know about it.

We need to get ourselves away from the television, put the electronics down and experience your life around you. Just walking by this bug on the side of my house, something so impossibly small, filled me with joy and memories of perhaps some of the greatest times of my life. Even though we live in a shroud of responsibility and adult life, you've got to keep your eyes open. Sometimes its the smallest thing that could turn an ordinary day into a beautiful day to remember.

Thank you Steemians for giving me a place to share this wonderful experience. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoys sharing it.