Stripey and Orangey

There is a spiderweb at the bottom right corner of the window which is directly in front of my table. I don't bother to get rid of it, even until now. Something interesting happened just now and I felt like blogging about it although it may not be something significant but somehow I felt one kind about the whole process. A butterfly-liked insect -- black wings with white dots, body with black-yellow stripes, its length is about 1++cm, with 6 appendages and 2 antenna(duh, it's an insects whattt...) is trapped in the spiderweb. The spider - super tiny, body length is about 0.3cm, orange in colour.

By now, you may be wondering why on earth am I telling you this incident. Aha, at this point of time I still don't know why. The butterfly-liked insect, I named it as Stripey and the spider, Orangey. Stripey was struggling to get out from the spiderweb but all its appendages, the wings were stuck to the sticky substances of the web. Well, take a look at our lives... whether we like it or not, some parts of our lives are still stuck to some past hurts and experiences we have had, and we are struggling to get out of it.

I thought of helping Stripey to get out from the web. But then, here comes the tiny Orangey, crawling here and there over Stripey and its capture web. I know Stripey is gonna die there if I don't take any action because Orangey will immobilize Stripey with poison injected into it through the fang-liked chelicerae and secret enzymes to digest it externally. In life, there will be things or people(well, they may be doing it consciously or subconsciously) who will somehow inflict pains upon us, and to eat us up.

I didn't help Stripey to get out from the web. Why? It's because I feel that this is one of the causes of nature. The predator and the prey. Someone will have to be a predator, and someone will have to be a prey. Orangey is very efficient in its task. With some cutting and secreting of silk strands, it moved Stripey to another corner of its capture web.

I checked the spiderweb again just now. Stripey is not moving anymore. It's not struggling anymore.

I was thinking - Am I being sadistic for I was there looking at Stripey struggling to get out from the web, looking at how Orangey celebrating over its prey and yet I take no action about it? Am I being cruel to say that all these have to happen just because this is how the nature functions?

I thank God that I am not god. For God will surely give us a hand and help us out from the struggles we are facing. And the problem with us is that at times we want to get out from those struggles on our own strength, refusing to allow Him to help us and work in us.

What a lesson I learned from Stripey and Orangey!