Cast Off

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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to change

The shrilling song of the cicada or kuliglig is the loudest in the insect world and one of the most pleasant sounds of nature that i have heard here in Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya.
Their songs means the arrival of  the rainy season. It lifts the spirit after a long, hot and dry summer. Up there in the tree it sings beautifully, and without pause, stand alone or in chorus.
Adult cicadas are short lived, and the main function of such brief sojourn is reproduction. After that they die. Cicadas lay their eggs on twigs of trees. The newly hatched nymphs fall off to the ground and burrow into the root area of perennial plants whose roots serve shall serve as their food the rest of their underground life.
The shedding of their old skin "exoskeleton" heralds a new transformation from nymph into the adult form.
They leave their old "self" clinging on the bark and leaves of the trees. Sometimes, we also "cast off" our old ways to embrace new beautiful new personalities. We can repent of our wrong deeds, try new things and be a better person, leaving our old selves behind. Taken at 9:53 am using my GE A1250 at Brgy. Kirang, Aritao Nueva Vizcaya.

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