CRAB MENTALITY: WE ALL WANT TO BE by: Krusty Crab Cetrin When I was young, younger than what I am now, and not able to make my own firm judgment of life, I strongly believed in the anecdote of Crab Mentality: People at the bottom strata will pull down the people at the top, to getaway from their current less fortunate situation. I made a just-for-fun test to find out as to whether the anecdote of the Crab Mentality is for real or just another fallacy. I put all 10 crabs in a bucket and observed for a long period to witness the result. At first, the crabs were crowding on one side - pushing each other and pulling each other down whenever one rises to the top, chasing off each other to gain advantage on to one and another. Conversely, I was surprised to see that all crabs piled up, and one after clipped another to climbed up on the back of the crabs who are at the bottom, and also one after another they were all able to get out off the bucket. This is somehow an untoward evidence that not all urban sayings are always constant and empirical to its nature. We imprisoned our thoughts that we are analogous to the crabs blundered nature of diminishing or pulling down anyone else who achieves or is about to achieve success greater than our own. We are not crabs, and regardless of whether we adapted or not the natural personality of the crabs, they are spectacular creatures who were able to get the analogy that beating each other off and pulling each other down will take them all nowhere but on the same land of prisoners ground. Like the crabs, one must rise above than anyone else first to pull the others to the top while the crabs who are at the very bottom will support the skeletal force from the ground to make sure that the crabs being pushed above will reach the very top. Come to think of the scenario: if all together tried to race to the top or all together stayed low at the ground, not even one crab will be able to get out off the bucket and sooner, all will die a shameful death and embarrassing life being lived for. We must understand that pushing someone to be at the top before us is not a less fortunate situation. Being at the bottom for a while is a mighty obligation for they served as the ladder to reach the unanimous goal of the whole body - to get out off the prisoners bucket. Nonetheless, the stronger ones are not to disgrace the ones at the bottom because they were being pushed to be at the top for the obligation of pulling one by one the crabs who are at the bottom. We couldnt reach our goal altogether, but can surely be failure altogether at one snap if we dont understand our obligations in the surrounding we are moving around at. Accept freely to yourself the truth that few must lead and many should follow the one who lead with a virtuous heart. Sooner or later, the one who followed the lead will be the one to lead. Its a matter of time for adapting the situation to hone skills to be robustly prepared to be at the top like everybody else. Keep in mind that each of the members of the body must have one commonality of understanding to the exact goal just not to have every efforts made come to naught. It is without a doubt, everybody wanted to be at the top, but still never learned the right way how and why to be at the top. We, most of the time, think that to be at the top is to race to the top because theres plenty of room to celebrate our success. But if you reached the top by cause to feel or show inclination against someones or somethings will makes you shovel back to the ground and hide your head to cover up your disturbing conscience. We learned from the crabs. We must act like them in our friends, group, team, neighbors, families and/or society. Being adept in understanding, I instilled that before the world was, we were blessed already with gifts being called as skills. Being part of a supporting body or maybe one of the born leaders, whether low or high position assigned to us, is a gift. A gift meant to be shared and developed for the benefit of each members of the body. These gifts were not imparted to take advantage of or boast to whoever or whatever that has no same gifts. I never anticipated that this anecdote had taught me far better than the casual belief about the crabs and their disgusting behaviour. This is however exemplary analysis not to put the crabs name to shame, but to give light to our misnomers about them. This is to appreciate their values of camaraderie and submissiveness. I will always put in mind: to be a failure and poor is not a sin if these are for a temporal situation; but if to be felt and experienced over and over, without stone throw of improvement at all, that is a mortal sin. Crabs when successful group we are; but never as crabs when one will fall apart. #LearnoftheCrabs
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:31:02 +0000
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