Why do I keep attracting bees

You open the window and they are already there. You set your glass of juice on the table and one of them circles you.

You wonder why you. You didn't do anything to call them. You move, and another one comes. After a while, you start asking what it is about you that brings them. Ah, that's a lot of bees for one person.

What keeps coming back is not you. It's where you are standing: near lavender, near honey, near open soda, near the door left open. Bees go where there is work to do. You are mixing up being in their path with being the reason they pass through. And it costs you to watch yourself, to look for what you have too much of.

It is not you they follow, it is where you are standing.

I was wondering…

What would it be like to stand where you are and not look for what's wrong with you?