The Influence Of Bees On Today's Society

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Why does that one bee get to stay in the beehive while the rest of them have to fly around all day for nectar and then bring it back to the bee? Why? This was a question that I asked my dad when I was seven years old. He told me that I would have to find that answer out myself. Now, I know why, because the bee that stays in the beehive is the queen of those bees. She’s the most powerful bee in the beehive, and everybody has to obey her. Every bee has to collect nectar for her and deposit it in the beehive because she’s the queen and all others are her servants.

Hail the queen.
Hail the queen.

This is what happens with normal people like you and me. We are raised by our parents who tell us to dream big. We make a real effort in school to
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Don’t let other people drag you down. Don’t let your parents convince you to do a job. Don’t convince yourself that doing a job is your potential. Open your eyes. You can be more than an insect. You can be more than a mediocre worker in this world. Be somebody that changes the world. Be the person who leads the charge against the expectations of today’s society. Don’t be an insect. Be somebody who makes a difference, not just for yourself but for the world. Be somebody who changes the world. Sometimes, the queen gets assassinated. Sometimes there is a revolt. Start that revolt inside you. A revolt to keep you from turning into an insect. A revolt to keep you from looking at yourself as “mediocre”, “normal”. Let your inner soul guide your path towards greatness. Not some teacher, telling you to study so you can have a “successful” life. Not some school telling you to get good grades. Not some relative telling you to focus on studies. Don’t be an insect. Be the insect that overthrows the queen. Be somebody who breaks the molds, because those people are valued more than the people who work and go to college and then spend the rest of their lives paying debt on their house, on the side of a street, living in a world where nobody cares about them. Be somebody who’s remembered in history, not just as part of the number of deaths in a year, but as part of the group of people who have changed the world. Be the

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