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| Keep Your Goals Away from the Trolls |
There is a type of crab that cannot be caught -- it is
agile and clever enough to get out of any crab trap.
And yet, these crabs are caught by the thousands every
day, thanks to a particular human trait they possess.
The trap is a wire cage with a hole at the top. Bait is
placed in the cage, and the cage is lowered into the
water. One crab comes along, enters the cage, and begins
munching on the bait. A second crab joins him. A third.
Crab Thanksgiving. Yummm. Eventually, however, all the
bait is gone.
The crabs could easily climb up the side of the cage and
through the hole, but they do not. They stay in the cage.
Other crabs come along and join them -- long after the
bait is gone. And more.
Should one of the crabs realize there is no further reason
to stay in the trap and attempts to leave, the other crabs
will gang up on him and stop him. They will repeatedly
pull him off the side of the cage. If he is persistent,
the others will tear off his claws to keep him from
climbing. If he persists still, they will kill him.
The crabs -- by force of the majority -- stay together
in the cage. The cage is hauled up, and it's dinnertime
on the pier.
The chief difference between these crabs and humans is
that these crabs live in water and humans on land.
Anyone who has a dream -- one that might get them out of
what they perceive to be a trap -- had best beware of
the fellow-inhabitants of the trap.
The human crabs (we call them trolls) do not usually use
physical force -- although they are certainly not above
it. They generally don't need it, however. They have
more effective methods at hand, and in mouth -- innuendo,
doubt, ridicule, derision, mockery, sarcasm, scorn,
sneering, belittlement, humiliation, jeering, taunting,
teasing, lying, and dozen others not listed in our
thesaurus.
The way to handle such people is the the same method
used by Jonathon Joffrey Crab on his clan. (Remember
that book about the crab that wasn't content to walk
around, he wanted to learn underwater ballet?) Jonathon,
knowing the dangers of attempted departure from the cage,
said, "Hey! This is fun! What a gathering of crabs! I'm
going to go get some more!" And he danced off to freedom.
Our suggestion: keep the trolls away from your goals. |
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