Web of Life

As I continued with my morning walk, something caught my attention – a wonder of art, nature’s master piece - a giant spider web! The patterns on the spider web seemed to be an engineering marvel. I am amazed by the perfect symmetrical patterns composed of numerous triangles and rectangles!

Spiders don’t appeal to me at all, and I do find them creepy. But, looking at the spider web, it does reflect upon the persistence and dedication of spiders. A spider instinctively knows the best location to find it's prey, and it gets started with the web. Spiders don’t wait for a best location nor for the best weather or a best day! Once it starts spinning the strands, there is no looking back. It spins the web continuously, may be for hours or even days? The web itself is so delicate and yet the spider has complete confidence in the strength of its web. In spite of all the hard work, the web might be blown away by wind, or washed away by rain, or cleaned up by humans. The web that takes hours or even days to be woven, takes only a fraction of a minute or second to get destroyed. But, these forces are not going to stop a spider from spinning the web. It might start spinning another one, may be a better one that can withstand the forces of nature?

Though it’s a tiny creature, I am amazed by the strength and size of the web! This shows the power of its dreams, and the perseverance in making its dream come true!

Spiders do teach us some valuable life lessons. Whatever you want to achieve in life, get started now. There is no perfect time to get started than now. We too can dream big, and make it come true, sooner or later! We too should work diligently until our dreams become reality. Often in life we face a lot of challenges and setbacks, but those should not hold us back. If there is a need to start all over again, we should. Life is a process of continuous improvement.

As always, there are so many valuable lessons to learn and understand from nature. Our senses have far more potential than we actually use. When we spend some time outside with nature, close our eyes and listen as far as we can hear, it’s incredible how much more we notice when we take the time to slow down. Even with all the challenges facing our planet, nature never gives up. By making a commitment to grow and follow our dreams, we too can overcome any challenge. It is true that when we start investigating life with an attitude of curiosity, we're led down a trail to amazing discoveries! The web of our life continues to grow to a masterpiece!