i did something strange in the shower tonight. every now and then there will be a house centipede crawling on the walls. although they look like they are from another planet, they are harmless to humans. they eat bugs such as spiders and roaches, in fact. one was frantically crawling on the wall above bath while i was showering tonight. he/she was scared of the water, which is strange because from my knowledge they cease to exist in the presence of extreme dryness. i was finishing up my hygienic routine and i noticed the house centipede went missing. when i looked for it, it was caught up in water near the end of the bath. i had concluded my cleaning, so i turned off the shower. i grabbed some toilet paper and laid it on the sink counter. i proceeded to grab the house centipede by one of it’s legs to place on the paper. i dried the centipede off and it ran to hide behind my bottle of shaving cream. i left to get dressed and when i came back to check on him, he had moved on.
this all sounds so strange as i’m typing it, but i’ve been having copious amounts of compassion in my soul as of late.
(not that i didn’t consider myself a compassionate individual before.)
-ratha, 11:44pm, 7.21.18