God’s creations are amazing! Even though we get to learn from these creatures, we often consider these small ones to be ham-fisted ….. The snail for example (shown in the above picture) is a creature we often come across glued to the side walls or crawling on our footpaths. We usually make an expression of seeing something ugly or awkward and sometimes act really cruel in crushing them under our feet.. The above picture shows how this creature inferior to human eyes has proved to be a wonderful example of courage and determination..It could have very well taken an easier route of crossing the wooden planks through the connecting bridge…probably lack of intelligence made the snail being courageous but its determination is still to be praised….
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Just as additional info for readers, ham-fisted or butterfingered means lack of physical movement skills, esp. with the hands.
Well thats a great thought, sunand, about a nice appreciation of integrity of 'strength' and 'will' embedded in very nature and all creations. Although its a demonstration of strength and will, it could also be viewed as having a intellectual problem.
It is probably a good lesson for us, humans, to understand that, though we realize and ultilize some segments of our abilities, we often forget many other potentials, just like how the snail probably did not realize the bridging plank with the power of reasoning (of course animal-species dont strongly possess).
Thanks for your comments Vijey! Just to add on to your comments..my reason behind using the term ham-fisted was to stress the fact that the snail could succeed in crossing the planks even in the absence of dexterity (hands!!)
Yes Sunand I understand that. You try to bring the optimisium out of the drawback..
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Of course we could learn a lot from these creations (creatures) - the smaller in size they are, the more one can learn ;-)
Ants, Snails, Spiders - they all could teach us something or the other.Good observation - this one btw.
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