spiderweb
when we were younger, i remember one saturday we all decided to make a giant maze-web thing in a front yard. The yard was huge to us and so was the web... we spent time weaving these ropey things through different branches and making sure it would be difficult to get out of.
it took up our whole afternoon and we loved it.
so why do we still like doing that? why do we spin this complex webs around our lives... ensuring that entrance and exit will not be easy... everything becomes a giant mess entangled in every other bit... our webs are caught in other peoples webs, and they in turn just become a giant mad mess. we invite people to come play in our webs... knowing it will only make it more complicated for us to move around or understand our own homey web...
maybe as long as we continue to spin our webs as intricately and problematically as we grew up doing, we ourselves ensure that life will stay interesting... you'll catch people, children, bugs, problems, more problems...
who knew at the time that we were just training for our jumbled futures?
it took up our whole afternoon and we loved it.
so why do we still like doing that? why do we spin this complex webs around our lives... ensuring that entrance and exit will not be easy... everything becomes a giant mess entangled in every other bit... our webs are caught in other peoples webs, and they in turn just become a giant mad mess. we invite people to come play in our webs... knowing it will only make it more complicated for us to move around or understand our own homey web...
maybe as long as we continue to spin our webs as intricately and problematically as we grew up doing, we ourselves ensure that life will stay interesting... you'll catch people, children, bugs, problems, more problems...
who knew at the time that we were just training for our jumbled futures?
posted by bitterhoney at 1:07 AM
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If you were standing on the roof of your house, looking down over that web, would it be easier to see the way out?
Raise yourself up over your life, look down on it, and see that it's never as complicated as it seems when you're on the ground.
the only problem with that is that some spiders can't fly... they can imagine that they can fly, and they can imagine what they would see were they to fly...but they still can't fly... and what you imagine that you would see were you flying and the reality of what you would see were you flying are rarely the same thing...
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