Boiled Frogs

Biological studies have shown that if a frog is placed in a container along with water from its own pond, it will remain there, utterly still, while the water is slowly heated up. The frog doesn't react to the gradual increase in temperature, to the changes in its environment, and when the water reaches boiling point, the frog dies, fat and happy. 'On the other hand, if a frog is thrown into a container full of already boiling water, it will jump straight out again, scalded, but alive!'

Sometimes we behave like the boiled toads. We do not notice the changes around us or we simply choose to ignore them as its easier. We think that everything is fine and that anything bad will simply just go away… In our own lives and in the community at large. We ignore challenges, we procrastinate and choose not to solve life's trials. We do not make amends with people we have fought with and eventually as time progresses we get old and die without the opportunity to make sudden changes that impact a better way of living. It's better to emerge from a situation slightly scalded, alive with the scars of knowledge and life experience than to die with unsolved and missed opportunities.

May you have an excellent week!

Darren Zwiers

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." ― Barack Obama