Normally, I have a really big problem with bugs, simply because when I was 3 in Kuwait I had a horrific experience with my mom trying this new bug spray which turned out to attract the bugs of the whole neighborhood. So even the tiniest bugs creep me out. Flying ones not so much cause they have somewhere to go, but the ones that only crawl could just end up chilling with me for longer than I like.
I also dislike heat very much, so I went out to the garage to get a fan last week, and on it was a lovely spider that decided to make itself at home in my room. It was a pretty big, gross, gray spider. Really gross. So me and my sister are just sitting on my bed talking and she starts freaking out. I look over and there it is in the middle of my floor. Spiders helped the prophet, and I'm not about to kill something that worships more than I do, so what do I do? cover it with a shoebox until one of my brothers can take it outside in the morning. SUPER idea.
The next day we go to check on it and it's made a comfortable little web for itself. My brothers aren't home yet and my dad will just look at me funny if I ask him to take it out, so we decide to wait. A few hours later we lift up the box, and astaghfirullah, we suffocated the poor spider. I got this pang of sadness/guilt-the one you get when you miss Fajr. In trying to save its life, I actually killed it in a most uncomfortable way. Think about it..it could've had a quick and painless death by shoe, but rather, it died slowly, antagonizingly, in a shoebox. Sadness.
Moral of the story: Don't kill something while trying to save it. Apply liberally to life.
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murmy that is a very sad tale! i have a similar situation, in that i've been waiting for this fly to die. it's been in here for 4 days now and i thought it would've died peacefully long ago but it's still flying around! what do i do? sigh
Rima- aren't flies supposed to live for, like, a day. Hm.. maybe you got a supa fly.
Mariam- You're so sweet, trying not to kill the spider. I tend to just kill them. I feel bad about it, but I don't want to swallow it or something. Did you know that on average, Americans eat 5 spiders a year while sleeping? They just crawl into your mouth. Moral of my stat: just kill the damn spider. :P
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