The Curse of the Spider
I was cleaning my house meticulously ( ...which i never do unless a guest visit the following day).
I cleaned each and every corner of the floor as well as ceiling since tons of spider webs were all along the ceiling ( ...which i have never noticed earlier).
In that process, i noticed several spiders injured and even some of them were smashed to death. Many of the spider families were thrown at one go to the floor with my broom stick in hand.
My father used to tell me, 'Don't kill spiders ! In fact they are helping us by trapping the mosquitoes and other harmful flying insects'. But he will insist me to clean the webs once in a while in a months time. I never dared to ask him on this controversial aspect.
Now, coming back to the main story, the spiders were spread all along the floor in a very bad shape. I could sense their tears and agony.
The spiders were started yelling at me ... in fact cursing at me...
" We are living in this place for several generations in harmony and peace ! How cruel are you to demolish our nests and kill us ! Why did you do to us? What sin did we ever made to you ? "
I was astonished and got frozen. The only answer I could give to them was silence.
PS
When a heavy earth quake or Tsunami strikes us, we don't know the equations behind. Several times, i asked Him, why me or why us?.
The only answer I could ever get was silence.
-K Vijay Anand
22-11-17
I was cleaning my house meticulously ( ...which i never do unless a guest visit the following day).
I cleaned each and every corner of the floor as well as ceiling since tons of spider webs were all along the ceiling ( ...which i have never noticed earlier).
In that process, i noticed several spiders injured and even some of them were smashed to death. Many of the spider families were thrown at one go to the floor with my broom stick in hand.
My father used to tell me, 'Don't kill spiders ! In fact they are helping us by trapping the mosquitoes and other harmful flying insects'. But he will insist me to clean the webs once in a while in a months time. I never dared to ask him on this controversial aspect.
Now, coming back to the main story, the spiders were spread all along the floor in a very bad shape. I could sense their tears and agony.
The spiders were started yelling at me ... in fact cursing at me...
" We are living in this place for several generations in harmony and peace ! How cruel are you to demolish our nests and kill us ! Why did you do to us? What sin did we ever made to you ? "
I was astonished and got frozen. The only answer I could give to them was silence.
PS
When a heavy earth quake or Tsunami strikes us, we don't know the equations behind. Several times, i asked Him, why me or why us?.
The only answer I could ever get was silence.
-K Vijay Anand
22-11-17
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