First and foremost, they can withstand extreme temperatures (infact thats the prime reason of this post of mine because i'm sweating from head to toe in the Kolkata summer and these guys fly around without any fuss). Be it summer or winter, these tiny creatures will be there to give you company. They don't sweat in the heat or shiver in the cold and fly around without any clothing on their body. In winter, we humans use woolens to cover every possible part of the body and in summer we'll be sweating from head to toe even if we stay naked (i'm not sure how many people have tried this, at least I haven't). Neither of these holds true for mosquitos. So the first point in favour of the mosquitos is the ability to adapt to different weather conditions.
The next reason is diet. Every person has his own preferences reagarding food - some like chicken, some mutton, while some are vegetarian. Some like sweets, some don't and then there are some who will eat anything offered to them (at times they don't even wait for the offer). A person might not always get the food of his choice - for example as a kid I didn't get ice cream every single day and I'm sure even you were not always happy with what you had to eat. On the other hand, mosquitoes don't have much of an on this front. They have two basic components in their diet - blood and nectar. The latter is available in plenty in a country like ours where the population is rising at an ever increasing rate. And so mosquitoes will never die of hunger. Another advantage is that don't have to think hard and decide what they want and after having their full they don't reflect back and feel "Maybe that item would have been better".
The third point is freedom in more or less every aspect of life. Today if Manmohan Singh finds out that I'm having dinner with Mr. L.K. Advani, there is a high probability that i'll be branded as a BJP supporter and this holds true for the vice-versa case too even if my actions have no political motive. However, if the mosquito has Manmohan Singh's blood for dinner, then Mr Singh will not classify the mosquito as a BJP supporter and he will not accuse the BJP of sending the mosquito to harm his party. Also after catching me moving around with Mr. Advani, Mr Singh will not readily agree to a dinner with me. But come to think about the mosquito. If he/she manages to sneak into the Parliament, he can suck blood from people belonging to 10 different parties and no one will question his/her political preference. A mosquito born in Bangladesh can come to India whenever he wants. He doesn't need a legal passport and he won't be considered an illegal immigrant.
The next point I'd like to make is social equality. All mosquitoes are brothers and sisters in the true sense of the words. No one is superior to the other. Have you ever seen someone in a situation where a mosquito has been drinking his blood and when a second mosquito arrives, the first one leaves and allows the second one to drink because he is inferior to the second one and therefore he should make way? If anyone has actually encountered such a situation then the only conclusion that can be drawn is that your blood is not too tasty and thats why the first mosquito left and chances are high that the second one left soon after too. To put things straight, all mosquitoes are equal. they do not have any divisions on basis of caste, creed, religion, nationality, economic status, etc.
Last but not the least, there are only two ways a mosquito can die - smashed/eaten by superior creatures like human beings and lizards and natural death (I'm not sure about this. Its just an assumption). Some companies like mortein, all out and a few others claim that they have products that kill mosquitoes, but I'm not quite convinced. I have actually seen mosquitoes sitting on all-out machines and the best I can say about these products is that they repel mosquitoes. Also there are only two way we humans can kill mosquitoes - smash them with your hand or electrocute them with a weapon that resembles a tennis-racket (you can consider mortein, all-out and co. to be a third method if you want to). A mosquito on the other hand has more ways to kill humans - malaria, dengue, chickunguniya, rift valley fever, ross river fever are a few diseases they can transmit and the list does not end here. Hence, mosquitoes are more dangerous to humans than we humans are to them.
(P.S. If your name is Rajnikant or Mithun Chakraborty, then you may know a thousand other ways of killing a mosquito. But those methods are not known to the common man and neither do we have the capability to adopt them. Hence if I have hurt your feelings by avoiding those methods then I sincerely appologise from the bottom of my heart)
With this I come to the end of my first blog post. I hope I have been able to justify the two points that I stated at the very beginning:
1: Mosquitoes are more privileged than humans
2: I am crazy
Comments and counter-arguments are most welcome. And if the heat and level of boredom continues to rise in the coming days then there might be more non-sense stuff put up here in the near future.
(P.S. I do not expect any counter-arguments for the second point. If anyone does come up with one then it'll be a pleasant surprise)
Cheers. Stay healthy, keep smiling and curse your luck for being a human and not a mosquito.
(P.S. Once again the last 12 words do not apply to you if you are Rajnikant and Mithun Chakraborty. I appplogise once again, and this time I do it from the top of my heart)
