A housefly lives for an average of 28 days. A month: to emerge as larvae from an egg, five days to grow up (go quick!), four weeks: to fall in love, out of love, in love, is this fly the one? make fly babies flies have perfect hindsight: they can literally see behind them, so I guess it's closer to currentsight maybe this is their gift in exchange for such a short life Does it feel like forever to them? Do they experience midlife crises around day 15? Is their concept of time like ours at all? Is fly life just one very long day? To compare, I have had 22 years and 9 months 273 months: to be vacuum suctioned out of my mom, to go to elementary, middle, and high school, then college, to grow so slowly and suddenly- where did the last year go? the last 5? a year. 12 times longer than a fly's life. 60 times the fly life is less than 1/4 of mine so far and while I'm probably not a maggot, I feel like a pupa. I don't even have any babies, fly or otherwise Flies probably don't work a 9-5 because evading spiders and fly swatters is exhausting and for them, literally a life's work I work, work, work and sometimes I feel like I'm in a spider's web JUST WAITING I'm not sure what the real life spider is, probably boredom I hope if the spider catches me, it's actually something great, like a free trip around the world If the spider is death, like it is for the fly, well I guess I'll build a catapult launch somewhere far away from the web Are there flies and spiders on Mars?
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