Moment | Matthew Clegg

Today as I was sitting in my voice studio class, awaiting my turn to sing and be ripped to shreds by the teacher, I saw a spider. A very ordinary looking black spider with no incriminating markings that would give me any cause whatsoever to squish it...but I'm terrified of spiders. It is not often that I don't immediatly kill a spider after seeing one, but for some reason I stopped myself this time. I don't have any clue as to what it was that prevented it's demise. All I know is that in that moment I felt like it's protector. Protecting it from myself, but protecting it nonetheless. In that small space of time I admired it. I saw traces of myself in it. The best of which manifesting itself when the spider ran in fear for the nearest wall, and away from vulnerability.