I saw a pretty good looking spider web today. These days, it’s hard to find perfect webs in a city. Maybe the spiders in cities are lazy.
I just remembered a children’s story about Buddha and his spider web. There was this criminal guy, Kan..something, who did “every single” crime that anybody could commit in this world. Of course, he went to the hell when he died and had to suffer quite a bit. One day, Buddah was enjoying his walk in the Paradise and happened to walk by a pond that’s connected to the hell and you can watch what’s going on in the hell by looking into the pond. Buddha saw Kan and remembered that he did one good thing in his life, which was saving a spider. So, Buddha decided to use some spider’s film (poor spider! he had to secrete enough film to connect the heaven and the hell! Torture in the Paradise), so that Kan could climb up to the heaven, using the thread. Well, of course, other people in the hell wanted to come up too but Kan was afraid that the film was going to break, so he tried to kick other people off. Then, the film broke and Kan fell into the hell again and stayed there for the rest of his afterlife.
I guess the moral of the story is “don’t be greedy” but as a child, I couldn’t help wondering how Kan was supposed to know that this film was super strong that it could hold millions of people.
I guess I wasn’t the most straightforward Asian kid.