Stories:
“friends"
who encourage them to quit Girl Scouts (or any other worthwhile activity).
One
time a man was walking along the beach and say another man fishing in the surf
with a bait bucket beside him. As he drew closer, he saw that the bait bucket
had no lid and had live crabs inside.
"Why
don't you cover your bait bucket so the crabs won't escape?", he said.
"You
don't understand.", the man replied, "If there is one crab in the
bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly. However, when there are many
crabs in the bucket, if one tries to crawl up the side, the others grab hold of
it and pull it back down so that it will share the same fate as the rest of
them."
So
it is with people. If one tries to do something different, get better grades,
improve herself, escape her environment, or dream big dreams, other people will
try to drag her back down to share their fate.
Moral
of the story: Ignore the crabs. Charge ahead and do what is right for you. It
may not be easy and you may not succeed as much as you like, but you will NEVER
share the same fate as those never try.
We
have been enriched by the talents of people who have had less than
"perfect" bodies, whether by birth, accident or disease - Helen
Keller, F.D. Roosevelt, Stephen Hawking, George Bush, Stevie Wonder, Christopher
Reeve, to name just a few. They chose to "climb the crab bucket"
instead of listening to others.
