Is Trusting Our Intuition Always Best?

I always believed trusting our intuition was best. But for the first time, I questioned this today.

Lighting the fire on a cold morning, I watched a spider scurry from a crevasse as the wood stove heated up. Its survival instinct kicked in instantly. It darted toward the nearest dark, sheltered nook it could find.

The problem: that nook was deep inside the burning birch bark. Its own intuition was leading it to its death.

When Instinct Fails

The spider was doing exactly what had kept it alive for millions of years. Its instinct was not wrong. Its environment had simply changed faster than its programming could adapt.

Then something happened. It emerged from hiding one last time. I extended the fire poker, and it climbed on. I carried it to the front door and released it into the cold December air.

I hope your story lives on, little spider. Your refusal to stop fighting until it was no longer possible is worth remembering.