Bugs

Today I have been wondering if our basic beliefs of things change ..... I had a vendetta against japanese beetles.... there was a small plaque of them when i was a teenager and they ate up everything in site...... my crazy father bought me a spray pump and poison to shoot at the apple and cherry trees... i was completely on a mission to kill the beetles...... but they kept coming and eating all the leaves off of the trees... and i kept up the crazy battle against them.... as i sprayed the beetles they fell like rain off those trees and the next day they would be back..... i would cough and gag as i tried my best to save my grand purple trunk cherry tree.....in the end the tree did survive ...the beetles left for the most part on there own... and a new pest came the gypsy moth.............. today i am fighting ants in the summer that come into the house............ however i now draw the bugs and incorporate them into the art...... i still have a vendetta against ants but its nowhere near my fight with japanese beetles .... still has the belief that they are bad and me good changed in any significant way????? maybe........ they seem to hold there own in my art....... my aunts and cousins were terrified of bugs and would scream over bees, moths and black crickets that would hide in the laundry... when i heard their scream i felt a little superior.. i still do.... cause i had my spray pump full of insect poison........the strange things our minds make up to feel better about oneself...... paul