I came across this article from our company's newsletter. It's an excerpt from It's Not as Tough as You Think: How to Smooth Out Life's Bumps - by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski.Ever thought about how a lobster grows? Because of its rigid shell, the larger it gets, the more uncomfortable the lobster becomes. Eventually, it has to shed its old shell in order to grow a new, roomier model. This process is repeated multiple times (as many as 25 times over the first 5 to 7 years of its life) until it reaches its maximum size.
During the 48 hours or so that the lobster is shell-less, it is in grave danger. You could walk up at any time with a cup of melted butter and it would be all over. For the lobster, there's no growth without risk.
I see 2 lessons for us in the story of the naked lobster :
You won't grow without taking some risks.
You won't grow without leaving something behind.
We don't have to take the risk if we really don't want to. If we are too afraid to leave the familiar for something better, we can continue to stay in our cramped, little shell convincing ourselves that it isn't so uncomfortable after all.
But will you be happy? Maybe yes, maybe not.
After all, life is all about taking some risk, isn't it? We can atleast tell ourselves "Well, I tried"
3 comments:
Great post. I totally agree with you about taking risks. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
I don't remember where I heard that saying and I could totally be screwing it up, but that's the first think that came to mind.
Sometimes we just got to give ourselves a little push when things get complacent or when we find ourselves compromising too much.
For crab, molting directly preceeds mating in many cases. The strange thing is if they are successful, their greatest threat is prohibited from harming them (fishermen).
I don't know what that has to do with taking risk. The only moral I can figure is that if your pregnant, folks are going to leave you alone.
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