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A Lesson from the Spider
I walk through spiderwebs frequently. Not only is it annoying, but every time I walk through a spider web, I feel bad for the spider who spent all that time and energy building it. That’s potentially a missed meal(s) or opportunity(ies) for the spider. Yet, the spider builds another web. It focuses not on the web that is destroyed but instead on building a new web.
Many attachments to outcomes, people, and things are self-defeating. The spider teaches us this. Resilience and wisdom are the answer.
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