Honey Bee Story

Jon recently went into a few blogs and noticed an increasing trend of "soul-searching" posts. The questions asked are "What am I doing here", "What is my purpose in life", "Wassup with my life", "Boring boring boring life" etc etc...

Jon feels that this is absolutely very normal for people, especially teenagers to start questioning life. Life is so routine isn't it? What ever we do, achieve or own will eventually be left behind at the end of life. So we might ask, "Why am I doing what I am doing now?"

Dear friends out there. Jon would like to share with you The Honey Bee story today. In fact, you may reckon your life just like the honey bees. They are the most workerholic among all insects and are ruled by the queen bee. Just like us, working everyday for a boss... or slogging our lifes to pay off our housing loans, car loans & all the other bills you can relate to now...

Like us, honey bees have to go through a long process to make honey. The house bee and the field bee are involved in the process. First the field bee goes out and collects nectar, which it stores in an internal honey sac. They bring it back to the hive and transfer it to the house bee tongue to tongue. Then the house bee spreads a drop of nectar on the roof of a cell in a comb. During the next couple of days other house bees fan their wings over the nectar so that the moisture evaporates (nectar is 80% water and honey is 19% water). Finally, more house bees cover every cell filled with modified nectar with a thin layer of wax... blar blar blar...

So looking at the above, honey bees will be also asking the same questions that we have discussed earlier until the day they die. However, never would the honey bees realise that all their hardwork has actually paid off to something bigger than they can ever imagine or understand. They do not realise that they are the prime pollinators of the planet. For all we know, honey bees make and do things that are helpful to us. They provide us with honey, royal jelly, beeswax,and propolis.

Having said that, Jon would like to encourage all of you. Do not feel lost any more. Like honey bees, we might not understand or imagine why are we going through what we are going through now... BUT trust the Creator of heaven and earth that whatever we do now has an impact somewhere somehow. Knowing this fact, life can never be better ever! May you all look at life in a NEW PERSPECTIVE from now on.

Embrace!