Once a person gets attached to something for a while, it's like someone took a piece of that person with them but they also leave a memory of them behind. The sound that the fly makes has been imprinted in my mind ever since they left.
According to hypertextbook, flies wings can move 200 times a second (no wonder when flies fly, their wings look like a blur!). According to Orkin, the fly makes a buzzing sound from the flapping of their wings. To me, the buzzing sound they make sounds like white noise. White noise sounds like rain, falling down in a rush and splattering across the ground and has a static electronic sound. White noise can be annoying most of the time. When a fly buzzes past me, I usually end up feeling like I am going crazy. Hearing such a steady, static noise makes me feel as if I can't hear anything else and am trapped in my thoughts. I hated the sounds the flies make as they pass me by, but at the same time, I grown accustomed to it.
White noise was what the flies left me with. Like it was an offering for always being around them and paying attention to them for once in their lives. It's hard grasping the idea that I will no longer get to see them. The cold weather shooed away the flies, leaving me breathless and lost for a while. Maybe it's the same feeling when someone loses something that they hold dear to them. Goodbyes aren't the best experiences but they also leave something behind. Like a lesson learned, or a memory to remember them by. Goodbye's let people grow and is also positive, for they make people realize that they take things for granted sometimes and that next time, they should appreciate the person more. The white noise the flies have ingrained in my mind lets me know that even though they won't be around for the next several months, I can think back and hear their wings flap, and knowing that I didn't waste my time with them because I learned to appreciate their beauty and strength that they so kindly had let me see without running away and being scared. Goodbyes are a good and bad life lesson.
Works Cited
"Sounds of a House Fly" Sounds of a House Fly: How House Flies Generate the Sound We
Hear. Orkin, LLC. n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2014.
Elert, Glenn. "Frequency of Fly Wings" hypertextbook. N.p. n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2014.
The way you describe the lost of the fly's sound is beautiful. Do you think they will be coming back?
ReplyDeleteMost times we don't notice how much we love something until it's gone. You represented this so well it is absoulutly beautiful being able to somehow feel the pain you experience with the absence of your flies.
ReplyDeleteThere are myriad things this makes me think: first--those wings must be moving incredibly fast to create that much sound (they're little creatures); second--I love (really love) the idea of white noise being left in the wake of something that is gone. It's like a vacuum is left, a noticeable emptiness; third--you rock.
ReplyDeleteThis was beautiful. The description you gave about the white noise was beautiful. The sounds of flies flying really bothers me because they tend to gross me out but the way you describe how much they seem to impact your life now opened my eyes. I'm judging a fly because they are normally around nasty stuff but flies keep our environment clean. Love your blog.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of white noise I hear that static noise from the TV whenever it has no signal, but you have changed my perspective on flies. I thought they were annoying little insects but your ability of being able to describe something that a lot of people misinterpret as "meaningless" and turn it into something that does have a lot of meaning to you is amazing. I love your sense of writing.
ReplyDeleteYour writing is absolutely beautiful. I love how you involved your emotions within your writing. I could also relate to how you felt. I was observing antlions and they've now disappeared, hopefully they come back next year.
ReplyDeleteThe description of a fly's sound is really beautiful and also I like how you describe the white noise.
ReplyDeleteWho would of ever known a small creature can have such speed.Your blog gave me a different perspective on goodbyes , although a question I am wondering is where do these flies go during this cold period of time?
ReplyDeleteEvery year I notice that when it gets cold the fly's start to disappear I notice that because my mom is always cooking and in summer the house has some fly's and my mom gets mad and by winter when it's cold there's not a single fly outside.
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