Lizard

My relationship with animals is complicated. I consider myself to be an animal lover. I love most of the animals yet I do have problems with some of the animals. One of such animals with whom I have a problem with is lizard. I do not necessarily hate lizards, but I do not love them too. I am also not scared of the lizards. But I do not like them particularly. Surprising fact is that lizards like me or lot.

The first time when I realised that probably lizards like me was when I was in school. I had gone to get some groceries from a shop near my home. At this shop I was waiting for the shopkeeper to pack the groceries for me. While waiting I suddenly felt a very cold sensation on my leg, as if someone had suddenly applied ice on my leg. I promptly looked down only to find that a lizard had been climbing on my leg and the cold sensation was because of the lizard. I felt disgusted with its touch. With whatever I could find I was trying to shoo the lizard away. The shopkeeper saw that and told me that if lizard climbs up on you it will bring bad luck but if it climbs down it will take away your bad luck. Irrespective of what kind of luck the lizard was going to bring I just wanted the lizard to leave me alone. Frankly I do not remember whether it climbed up or down. But I continude to feel that cold sensation of lizard on my leg for a couple of hours and I hated it.

Few years later, when I was a teenager, I was with my cousins in a car. Somehow a lizard had climbed into the car and it landed directly on my lap. The lizard did not move anywhere but sat on my lap as if it belonged there. I felt disgusted because I was wearing a brand new dress and lizard was ruining it. I tried to move the lizard away but it did not move at all. Finally I had to grab it in my bare hands and throw it out of the car.

A couple of years ago one lizard had entered my home. As my nephew was young my mother told me to either throw it out of the house or kill it. Me and my dad both of us were running around the lizard to catch it. When both of us surrounded it, the lizard decided to crawl in my direction instead of my dad's direction. I took the opportunity to catch the lizard. But then again I felt that why the lizard had attracted towards me.

There have been many more instances where lizard found their way towards me. At none of those instances I embraced their love and always I move them away from me. I insist that I do not feel disgusted because of they look ugly but rather I have a problem with their cold body temperature. The sensation that they leave is unbearable to me. Yet now I have come to terms with the fact that whenever I would go, probably a lizard would find me, and jump on me. And I am prepared for it.