The Crane Fly & It's Web!

The other day, I came across something that made me stop in my tracks and got me periodically thinking. What I saw before me, was a crane fly that had seemingly hung himself, by the remains of a spiders web.

The thing that got me thinking, was how symbolic this scene was. For those of you who are unaware, the crane fly is often referred to (more often through confusion) as a ‘Daddy-Long-Legs.’ The irony in this case, is that a daddy-long-legs would have survived and escaped the web, whereas this fly died. What I’m really getting at here, is that this insect had lived his life deceiving many people (essentially lying about his race) before being killed in this web of lies.

The analogy of the crane fly and the web could so easily be translated to the types of liars and deceivers we have in our world.

Now we’ve all told the odd white lie here and there, to get ourselves out of a situation we’d rather not find ourselves in; but there are people out there who I class as professional liars. These are the kind of people who can’t help themselves but lie and deceive others. It’s more than likely you’ve already come across one of these types of people in your lifetime – and if you haven’t, then you’re bound to sooner or later.

Could we not compare these kind of people to the crane fly who deceive so many with just their appearance? Sooner or later they could all end up in a web of their own lies, or perhaps a trap left behind by a smarter other.

I guess you could say the morale of story is, tell enough lies and you could find yourself trapped or hanged in a very sticky web!

- From The Inquisitive Mind Of Ed