Buzz buzz in the eardrum

If I had ever thought to lie awake at night and pon­der what a fly might sound like when heard from a dis­tance of approx­im­ately ten thou­sand miles away, I would have just received my answer.

It sounds buzzy. There.

In fact, it sounds almost exactly like a fly does if it is buzz­ing right next to your ear. Except with a dif­fer­ent accent. Because it is, of course, a for­eign fly. An inter­con­tin­ental fly. A fly from a dif­fer­ent hemisphere.

So I am now lying awake won­der­ing about this fly. Won­der­ing if it real­ised, in that brief moment, that it was broad­cast­ing to the world. Won­der­ing if its tiny brain can even begin to com­pre­hend how, via the mir­acle of mod­ern com­mu­nic­a­tion, it has just become the most widely trav­elled globe-trotting fly in insect his­tory. Answer: prob­ably not.

Just because life is com­plic­ated, doesn’t make it any less complete.