I worked as a mashgiach in several restaurants over summers. I would be extra careful with bugs, and if I wasnt sure what the speck was, I would wash the food again. Eventually my eyes started to hurt from staring at these tiny specks for hours at a time to try and make out legs or heads. The thought went through my mind that the Torah in its darchei noam couldn’t possibly be expecting us to strain our eyes so badly over a tiny black speck floating in a vat of water. It just felt like “too much hishtadlus”…
