Most Important Lesson. Ever.

It was a hot summer day. Too hot. The sun beat down unmercifully on my shoulders. The wind, the seething, unsoothing wind, whipped the desert sand into my eyes. The heat was almost unbearable. How could it be so hot? I took a quick drink of water. It was still cool in its bottle, but refreshement lasted merely for the blink of an eyelid. It lasted as long as the amount of sleep I got last night divided by the amount of sleep I WISH I had gotten last night. In milliseconds. I put the bottle back in the camel's saddle. We stopped moving. I think we had arrived back at the beginning. I moved forward. Then suddenly, something struck me. it was not a thought, but rather a giant blob of spit. From the camel. It had careened into the side of my face with the force of an angry bull. I cried out, injured and appalled, exclaiming a phrase that shall never again be repeated. I wiped the spit off with disgust. It fell to the ground with a loud splat. I turned to the camel. It glared at me, as if to say "Yeah. I just spit in your face. You wanna do something about it?" I didn't "wanna do something about it". I walked away, with a profound lesson instilled in my soul: Always pay attention to the world around you, or a camel will spit in your face.