tingling personal space

I was sit­ting on my bed, go­ing down a YouTube rab­bit hole.

I end­ed up med­i­tat­ing to Na­ture Sounds: Rain on a Tent and then want­ed to know how to bal­ance my sacral chakra, then found some hip­py guy talk­ing about spir­i­tu­al things he learned in prison.

Then I felt a tick­le on my arm.

I’ve been feel­ing tick­les on my arm all day, so I thought, Even though it’s been noth­ing all day, I feel I should check this out.

So, I glance down, see a fair­ly mid sized spi­der on my arm. With hero-like re­flex I throw him (or her) clear one way and I go the oth­er in a smooth light­en­ing quick move­ment. Now, while a suc­cess­ful es­cape method, I lost the spi­der.

Se­ri­ous­ly though, it’s usu­al­ly just cat hair. But now, even if my own hair touch­es my ear it’s like a spi­der ca­ress­ing my face. EVERY­THING TIN­GLES.

How do you poi­son spi­ders with­out poi­son­ing your­self?
Do they like spearmint?

I want to be un­ap­peal­ing, not a meal.

I’m not here to vil­lainize an en­tire species. How­ev­er, as a biped, eight legs is a bit off-putting. I won­der if spi­ders won­der why we are so tense all the time. It’s you, spi­der. Your very pres­ence.

You’re qui­et, you’ve got way more eyes, some of you have poi­son and fangs, you move re­al­ly fast, and you just kind of ap­pear out of nowhere … with no per­son­al space, ap­par­ent­ly.

Be­cause of all that, I will be ner­vous­ly cre­at­ing sce­nar­ios in the dark tonight, about your many legs frol­ick­ing about my para­noid slum­ber­ing hu­man body.

There is one thing more dan­ger­ous than a small crawly life form, and that is one with the abil­i­ty to imag­ine the worst pos­si­ble sce­nario.

… a small crawly life form with a vendet­ta.
 
 

—lux nova

Flom­mist Lux Nova is an in­sti­tu­tion­al graph­ic de­sign slinger from the peaks and Val­leys of Utah (who hap­pens to have an affin­i­ty for shiny things and tog­gle switch­es). Copy­right © 2018 Lux Nova.

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