If you are anything like me, worms take up a lot of your thoughts. Where do they come from? Where are they going? Do they respect us making gummy replicas of them?

The answer to those questions is: The ground, probably the ground and no. This is a call to arms, PEOPLE. Worms are disrespected in this day and age! I, like the next person, appreciates gummy worms; however, how would you feel if you found out that worms ate gummy humans? I don’t think I'd feel very positive about that.

Moreover, gummy bears. Again, a perfect example of humans being jerks. We haven’t taken into account bear feelings at all! What’s next for humans to take advantage of? Gummy chickens, gummy platypuses, gummy octopi…when will we stop?!

But, I digress; the subject at hand is worms. Do they sell worm farms? I’ll look that up later.

Worms are underrepresented, I don’t see BuzzFeed showing videos of cute worms doing things, just puppies and cats and little rodent creatures. I prefer my pets hairless and squirmy. Worms are never viral — when will they get their chance to shine?

Caterpillars are somewhat similar, but they eventually become moths or butterflies — they are living their lives to become something else. Worms are simply ugly, but they don’t try to live a life of lies, they know this is the best it’s going to get for them. They’ll probably get swept up from the rain and stomped on by some kid going to class, and they are aware of that. Or they aren’t, I’m mostly assigning feelings and thoughts to worms, which is not backed by scientific evidence.

Worms — just the word is reminiscent of something gross — are under-appreciated. They are so great for the soil — that’s how you can tell if the land is good for growing, if worms thrive in it. Also, those little creatures are SO GOOD at composting. Us humans are so bad at breaking down organic material and composting it…we’re just not to the same caliber as worms. And sadly, we don’t respect them still.

The only attention worms get is when someone uses the contrived saying “open a can of worms” and even then, worms are assumed to be willing to go into a can. Well maybe sometimes they aren’t willing to just hop into a can.

Inch worms are pretty darn cute, however.

On Wikipedia, the word worm, or murn, is used to describe a carnivorous reptile, and sometimes dragon…WHAT? I just don’t understand. They also claim that the term worm is used as an insult against people who are cowards and weaklings. Again, just so rude. Why can't the term worm be used to describe a hero?!

Overall, it seems that worms need to be talked about more, and not get the short end of the stick in everything, ever.

Moral of the story, worms are people, too…except they’re not. But still, consider it.