BECOME A COCKROACH: Not Having Deadly Weapons But Still Feared

Let's have the courage to take a look at the life of this insect, hopefully we can get a valuable lesson from it.

Cockroaches, these disgusting insects that live all around us. His filthy, filth-eating place, his body that leaves behind germs, his amusing shape are some of the reasons why he is so hated by humans.

Cockroaches are also among the weakest animals. It did not have the lethal attack to defeat its enemies, it did not have any fangs for biting or sharp nails for clawing. In the food chain these insects are the food of other animals. It himself feeds on dirt or dead organisms. There are even species of cockroaches that eat human feces.

But, even though his life is dirty, dirty, disgusting and weak, we can still take lessons from him.

Among the lessons we can learn from the life of cockroaches is how they defend themselves from attack. Cockroaches that live in cities tend to have no enemies, except for us who often “fight” them. Let's see how the cockroaches survive our attacks. Sometimes he was silent as if he was dead when we hit it with a broom, after a few minutes he disappeared somewhere. Or, when we are about to attack it, the cockroach runs towards us with its fast run like it will attack, when we are shocked, as fast as lightning it turns around to save itself.

The lesson we can take is that even an insect as disgusting and weak as a cockroach will not allow itself to be intimidated by other creatures, if it cannot attack it will run to save itself.

We as human beings who have a mind and heart certainly cannot accept intimidation from anyone and in any form. We must not instigate enmity and war, but we must maintain peace as we have always hoped for. However, when other people show their arrogance to us and want us to just submit to their wishes we cannot be silent.

Peace is not subject to the will of those who do evil to us, it is subject to humiliation. Resistance to oppression is not anti-peace but rather an effort to eliminate disturbance in order to bring about true peace where we live side by side with our neighbors without disturbance. Even when we know that we cannot defeat the bully, then we put up a fight and die defending ourselves, then our deaths are not in vain, such deaths are honorable deaths because we maintain our dignity.