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    16/08/2008

    Playing God.

    So, this is something that I read on one of my random friend's Facebook and I really enjoyed it and thought I'd share it with you. Take from it what you will.
    <3


    "I don't think it's any mystery that I tend to over think and analyze every situation that occurs in my life... For those of you who know me closely anyway.

    This time, I merely have an experience I would like to share.


    Sitting at my computer, somewhat stoned and after a period of my meditation... I was asking the universe to give me something, anything with me aning. An answer to my questions that never stop, never give me rest. And then... It was not but a few seconds later, and this is the honest truth... I noticed a tiny spider no larger than a millimeter or two a few inches from my face. It had come right into the perfect spot to be seen between my eye and my monitor. There was no avoiding it. The universe had my complete attention.


    Reaching up, I snapped the horizontal thread the spider was crawling across... and the spider dove downward releasing a web behind him as he tried to escape what must have been a confusing and terrifying sight. Playing "god" suddenly became my interest, I did not want it to escape this interaction, I wanted it to land on me, so I put my other hand below so it would have no choice. Gravity would serve my ends.


    During this time I was contemplating what this interaction must be like in the spiders perspective... if it even understood it was being manipulated by another intelligent being... how massive my fingers would have appeared to its tiny eyes. Could it even conceive of something as powerful and massive as me? Most likely not. It would be simple to control such an "oblivious" creature...


    To my surprise however the spider did not land on my hand. Instead, as it came close it stopped, twitched its front legs at me, and turned around... crawling back up its thread towards the finger that suspended it in the air.


    Immediately what came to mind was the resistance I had put up in my own life to the universe around me. Me and the spider had something in common... we both refused to go the way we were being guided.


    Patiently I waited for it to crawl up and up and up towards my waiting finger. I knew it had no choice but to crawl on me if it wished to navigate out of this situation. But to my amazement... as it reached the tip of my index finger, the tiny spider grabbed the piece of horizontal thread that was just out of the light, so I could not see it... and climbing away from me, slowly and away from the forces that had tried to hold it back... the spider "flew" away on an invisible rope.


    Now... I don't really know why I shared this. Or what meaning it has to it.
    But I was once told... The most revolutionary thing you can do is share.
    More and more these days I wish honestly, that someone was here to share the moments I experience alone that amaze me.
    Much love."

    spider finger

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