I think spiders are frightfully horrid creatures. With those hairy little legs and the fact that they have silk pooping out their butts that they then build into homes/traps is just too much for my little brain. I also hate when I walk through a spider-web and it's like OMG! So then you have to peel off the sticky INVISIBLE web and face the feeling that the spider is on you planning its strategy on how to bite you which is definitely no bueno. And I don’t kill them either because when I'm trying to kill a bug and it gets away I always end up thinking, "Dammit he's going to murder me now."
I do have reason to think they are very clever little creatures though. Just this morning, while standing outside have a cigarette I noticed a spiders web in the branches of the little shrub in the gardens.
So I broke it.
The web.
Not the spider.
Like the big kid I am I broke it. I had not ulterior motive. I just broke the web. This does not make me a bad person. We dust away spider webs all the time.
Then I witnessed something quite spectacular. The little spider immediately began repairing and rebuilding his web! Right before my very eyes. I found this fascinating and after another 10 minutes of standing there, someone from my office actually came looking for me because I was still quite glued to my spot just observing him pooping out silk.
I had to leave my little friend then, but when I went out a little while later I checked in on him and found that he had completed his task, and was napping (it looked so) after a meal of some sort of bug that had already been caught up in his web and turned into bug milkshake!
Wow.
That’s pretty amazing.
I think so anyway.
It got me thinking of all sorts of thinking stuff, and how in life, people often walk past and just unapologetically break down certain aspects, areas or beliefs we have. And too often we stand there, dumbfounded, not knowing what to do next.
I’m going to try being a little more like the little spider. That horrible little thing that I’m sure just wants to eat me. The next time someone tries taking away from me, or breaks down something I’ve built, believed or hoped for, I’m just going to get right back up again and put it back together again.
Thank you for that lesson. You clever little spider.
Ps – I know they don’t shoot silk out their buts really really, but I’m not sure where it does come from and “buts” is just a word that makes me laugh so much. So leave me be.
5 comments:
I love this post. My favourite one of your blog posts yet!
Well put Wozzel
Ps you had better be careful, they may ban you from looking at spiders/webs your school-teacher of an employer
This no internet at work thing sucks ass! We want to hear from you.
Juz
One of your best updates to date!
Remember Ferris Buellar? Buellar? 'Life moves pretty fast. If don't stop and looked around once in a while, you might just miss it.'
If you hadn't been looking around you might have missed this lesson.
WOW, this post deserves a tick on funny and interesting. And what you said is true.
Cry over what was destroyed wont do a thing, so, lets start all over again.
5* posts.
And that's how webs coming out of a spider's butt teaches us, mere humans, a lesson =)
cheers
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