Mothballs in the woods

When a mothball is alone in the woods, do the moths smell it??

So a friend of mine recently asked me this. Instead of getting ready for work, I am going to respond to this.

Mothballs, smell for no one. They smell for themselves, for the universe, for everyone and anyone. Alone or with other mothballs, the moth ball will smell- that is the beauty of the mothball. It is its own ball! We should all strive to be like the mothball, free and smelly, for no one in particular.

But that is not to say that mothballs do not know how to live with one another in community. They are very Zen in that way- whatever situation they find themselves in, they simply live to the fullest of what they are meant to be. In a community, they work in concert, happily supporting each other, combining their smells constructively, so that the result is smellier than the sum of their parts.