THE DESTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE

     A fly flew looking for a place to sit when she passed near the head of a man that came from the supermarket drinking soda and holding a plastic bag with the another hand. The man perceived the fly flying at his height and said:

   -If I had wings I wouldn’t fly too low.

   The fly heard the critique and answered:

   -Worry more with your own evolution and less with my flight and soon you will have wings.         

   The man became angry, drank his soda and threw the can trying to hit the fly. The can passed near the fly, fell on the street and rolled to the drain.

   The fly turned around the man and asked:

   -Why don’t you help to clean our planet rather than dirty it?

   And then the man took an insecticide can from his bag and splashed poison against the air where the fly was.

   (Osmar Batista Leal)  

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