Snowbirds

Migration is an important phenomenon in the universe. Every known being migrate in the search of balance. Planets and asteroids migrate, rocks do it, wind does, and so every animal in planet earth. Even plants like to migrate, get as far from papa tree’s yoke and start its own life project. Basically migration is the means in which a specie move from one geographical point to another. Usually motivated by survival instincts, we seek means that helps live on days. As for that, in the past our Homo grandpas traveled from their birthplace to whichever place where water and food could sustain a group of furry apes. Not knowing earths map, every step was part of a big global conquest.

Years of evolution just let to hairless apes commonly known as humans to dominate earth by migration. As we acknowledge our presence on earth, we’ve tried by all means to clearly manifest our independence of the animal kingdom, as our brain is so egocentric that by thinking he imagines we are superior from all species in the world. Truth is, we still have many animal habits that maintains us close relates to the kingdom, a presumptuous animal cousin ill say. So even now, humans migrate for survival instincts. Only today, migration is religiously (believers of human laws are just like believers of gods law) a bad habit of humans. Walls and visas are constructed all over the world to prevent migration.

Humanists focus on massive human movements caused by a chaotic human created system that develop regions simultaneously undervaluing others. By means of that logic, humans that are born in these undeveloped countries, search by all means to enter these “rich” cities, to live the dream of a successful and integral life.

Now, it is curious that in the other hand, some natives of developed countries enter a stage in which commodities and overdeveloped cities don’t satisfy their necessities. Answering their need, they unconsciously connect the full migrante infinite cycle, migrating against all system logic, to the south.

Southerns call them snowbirds.

I’ve known several snowbirds in the time lapse I been awake. Easily identifying the red tomato face, as for overexposing with enjoyment to the sun of our lands. I don’t get that excited with the sun, problem for me, having this called star over my eyes from 6 AM till 7 PM.

In desert festivals, it is necessary to act with intelligence. For in the day, the sun burns clothes away and some silly stupid, will hide from photons in the shadows of palm trees. Foreigners don know how the desert works, a bipolar zone, getting high temperatures in day, and getting freak in cold as the moon arises. So, it is highly recommended to find the music of your interest, and dance, dance to swallow that energy by photosynthesis, cuz the night is long and icy, so it be kind to use that extra energy for midnight adventures. On infrared cinema, we look just like on going steam machines on invisible railroads. Its funny how we never crash with people, it’s an unusual event, differing when we are car drivers, on which we loose the manageability of ambience resulting of disconnecting from the outside, and as we get as cold as death, we desperately approach anyone crossing for its heat.

So well, snowbirds fly up here and stand beneath cactus-palm drinking fresh margaritas. This type of migration is so quiet and low profile typed that nobody notices it (excepting good all fun weekend springbreakers). We are so concentrated on walls and visas, on the Central Americans and there suffered trip to the north, which we end up giving a small value for those who escape from the heavy white winters of northern land.

Motivations. Desire. It is desire for everything we don’t own that keeps the motor on going. Visitors have this magnificent opportunity to notice aspects that for locals, blinded by routine, cant see. In that way, new experiences we desire. Human routine lacks of experiences, system tries to control us by saying, and there is a way to effectively progress, stay here and work. There is this generation, that is going on back to nature instincts, progress is hardly found in one place, one need to constantly move on searching for the best suited environments.

Human progress now depends on proper migration interaction of species; as for nobody has a complete whole view of life. Everyone brings up baggage of knowledge from their particular home zone, information that can be used as currency in new spots. That’s how I think globalization works, as snowbirds come here, they learn about microscope land and the natural liberty that clouds and sun can give, and they show us a whole world of knowledge we just never though of.

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