"dear samantha i’m sorry we have to get a divorce i know that seems like an odd way to start..."

“dear samantha
  i’m sorry
  we have to get a divorce
  i know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain:
  it’s not you
  it sure as hell isn’t me
  it’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects do
  i love you.. far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our species
…
did you know that when a female fly accepts the pheromones put off by a male fly, it re-writes her brain, destroys the receptors that receive pheromones, sensing the change, the male fly does the same. when two flies love each other they do it so hard, they will never love anything else ever again. if either one of them dies before procreation can happen both sets of genetic code are lost forever. now that… is dedication.
…
  so i have a new plan
  i’m gonna leave you now
  i’m gonna spend the rest of my life committing petty injustices
  i hope you do the same
  i will jay walk at every opportunity
  i will steal things i could easily afford
  i will be rude to strangers
  i hope you do the same
  i hope reincarnation is real
  i hope our petty crimes are enough to cause us to be reborn as lesser creatures
  i hope we are reborn as flies”

- Jared Singer, “An Entomologist’s Last Love Letter”
(via maundrette)