Spiders n Sanity

I think that I am among the few people in this world who scream or cry at the sight of an insect depending on what it is, however, today I amazed my self (Only for a short period time) and how great it felt. My cousin who was sitting on my bed along side me had been surfing the net for a considerable time with my laptop, I didn’t really seem to care as I was listening to nasheeds and thinking about random things as usual. All of the sudden I hear this loud scream and the first thing that came to my mind was “are you crazy,” there is a perfectly good reason for this, I know normally you would ask the person if they are ok and all but this time all I could think about was her screams waking my dad up (no one gets between my dad and his sleep apart from prayers and his worship of Allah). The second thing that came to my mind was my laptop (horrible I know!) but if you had seen the way she jumped up and screamed you would have also been concerned about my laptop. With my laptop been safe, I jumped up with her, and asked why she was acting up, her reply was “oh my god, oh my god, get it off me!” not knowing what she is on about I stood there for a few seconds thinking that has gone insane.

What I did not see is this huge black spider climbing her back, normally my reaction would be to scream and call my older brother, my younger brother or anyone who is available even if they are my young sisters but this time it was truly amazing as I did it all by myself (with the help of knowing my dad was asleep and thus I couldn’t scream, shout or do my normal reaction), the feeling of been proud of my efforts went away as so as I got the front door as I called for back-up.


My coolness through the whole thing was quiet funny, I simply asked her to stay still and to slowly take off her jumper, which worked wonders, until it came to taking the thing outside. I stood there for like 10seconds for her to open the door and she was still standing in place as a result of the shock she felt, I looked at her been truly astonished at the way she was acting by standing glued to one spot, I also felt angry at the same time and then the thought hit me that I am her when it comes to situations like this. I leave my brothers to deal with it, I just standing in one place shouting take it out! To make the whole traumatic situation even worse, as soon as we got outside with the jumper, the spider was no where to be found. Shocked, disgusted and scared I ran to my room to clean everything from the roof to the floor (which alhamdulilah was good, I finally sorted out my clothes), but this always happens whenever I see a spider anyone where in my room or anywhere I the house I began a cleaning session and I cant seem to figure out whether it is a psychological issue or not but spiders compel me to do things such as cleaning. Is this normal?