I have already started with this week’s article when I received a wonderful message on WhatsApp, and it has such profound lessons that I’ve decided to rather publish this. Unfortunately, I don’t who the author is.
I couldn’t confirm what happened to the larvae that doesn’t end up the queen, but if any of you know, please let me know.
During some training I have done, our manuals had motivational and educational sayings. One that has stuck with me was: “Everything and everyone in your life is a teacher.” Keep this in mind while you read the following:
Bees are Hiding Surprising Lessons
When the hive loses its queen who alone is able to give life to the colony and maintain order in a perfectly organized society, all seems lost. The life of the hive is slow. Without new eggs, the future is lost. In a few weeks, the colony could be doomed.
But bees don’t panic. They don’t expect salvation from outside either.
Demonstrating extraordinary collective intelligence and deep instincts, they activate spectacular emergency procedures, almost unimaginable in a world dominated by insects.
Transformation begins with a simple but essential choice:
Worker bees choose common larvae, those that would normally be simple workers. They have nothing special. They are not born to be different. But their fate changes completely.
They are chosen to receive a special treat: royal jelly. A rare substance, produced by healthy bees, rich in proteins, vitamins, and bio-active compounds. It’s real food in the purest sense of the word.
Larvae fed exclusively with this substance no longer follow the normal path. In just a few days, their bodies develop differently. The ovaries are activated and the body grows bigger and stronger. Life expectancy multiplied by almost twenty. The queen won’t work, but will run and won’t follow a routine. She will bring life. The queen is not chosen by her genes but is created.
What makes this process so fascinating is that worker bees and queens share the same genetic code. DNA does not determine destiny. Nutrition is determined by it and the attention. The decisions of the beehive.
It’s as if, in a human society, you could take an ordinary child and, by giving him/her the necessary care, environment and support, turn him/her into an extraordinary leader. Without genetic intervention. No more fireworks. Only with support and vision.
A leader is born out of crisis.
This metamorphosis doesn’t just save the larvae. It saves the entire colony.
Once the new queen is ready, she takes control of the hive, begins laying eggs, restores order, and initiates a new cycle of collective life. Endangered by extinction, the colony is reborn stronger, more organized, more balanced.
A silent but profound lesson.
The bee shows us, without words, that in times of great crisis, despair is not a gamble, but clarity. A plan. The right choice. Attention and direction. In her world, a queen is not born. It’s leaning. Feeding herself. Be guided.
And maybe, as in the hive, in life it doesn’t matter what you start with, but what you receive, how you treat, and the decisions others make in difficult times.
Because sometimes, it is in the toughest moments that the strongest leaders are born. Not by chance. But for crisis, vision and transformation.
What are your thoughts? Let me know.
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