Life of an Earthworm

Did you ever imagine how it feels to be an earthworm?

With your slimy body, you eat yourself a way through the earth. You might bump into stones and have to eat yourself around roots while poison leaks through the soil you are travelling through. If you are tired you lay around and there's not much to do let alone to see. It most likely is pitch dark and if you do not listen carefully you might be shovelled away or dug out of the ground grabbed by some fingers to end up on a hook to serve as a snack for some fish who might just bite a piece of your arse. 

Being an earthworm is far from fun. If you do not eat, dig, or slide around, without any reason or goal, you may hit a rusty nail or cut yourself to a piece of glass or beer can some drunk left behind. 

Kind of fun you might have if it starts raining. The soil is wet and it's easy to eat yourself a way out and lay between the grass to enjoy a fresh bath, that is unless the rain isn't acid and hurts your delicate skin. 

After you enjoyed yourself on the surface it's wise not to doze off. Before you know the sun awakes and dries your skin into an unrecognizable thin, shrivelled brown shell. Or worse early birds will pick at you and try to rip you apart because they see you as their delicious meal. 

Of course, it is not all misery if you try to ignore all those underground predators chasing you, nibbling at your head or dividing your front from your back. If you might meet, coincidentally, another worm just like you, you can mate by just passing by. No need for an introduction or chat let alone a wedding it's just about doing it. In turn, the worm is the guy and if they separate they are both the pregnant wife. No need to be upset, for a good chat with the folks. It's accepted because this is who you are. Hermaphrodites from birth till the moment you die. 

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That moment can be faster than expected since not only animal life but also humans know how to make the life of an earthworm miserable and shorter than it should be. 

You might think they are the tiny snakes in the grass but that's not true. They are Mother Earth's natural fertilizers since they eat their way through and shit it out when we leave. So better behave and embrace the worm since without the soil will look like stone, dry, without ventilation and useless to keep life going on. No worm, no fertile soil, no plants, no animal life, no persons.

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