Frog Tales

What a frog lacks in tail it makes up for in tales.

My dear reader. Have a read. 
For perhaps you are a frog.


Frog Story 1

As a baby a frog fell into a deep well. He grew up only seeing a small patch of the sky and to him it was the entire world. One day a robin came and perched on the edge of the well. The frog shouted up "where did you come from?!" The robin replied "from far far away, I'm exhausted and need to rest a while." "Far away?!" replied the frog "Impossible!"


Frog Story 2

An experiment was done on a frog in a lab. The frog was taken and dropped into a pot of boiling water. Upon immediately hitting the water it leaped out with all of its might. The same frog was allowed to rest for some time before another experiment was done on it. It was now taken and put into a pot of warmish water. The temperature was gradually increased but the frog did not budge. It stayed in the water, gradually losing its energy as the water got hotter. It finally had no energy left and the water was so hot that it was boiled alive.


Frog story number one to me:


We are often found in positions where our scope of the world around us is severely limited by our beliefs about how that world should be. From time to time we are woken from our slumber. Usually it is a brief awakening. Rarely do we ever dare to leave our deep dark well entirely. My most recent 30 day experiment with vegetarianism was more about looking outside of the well than it was about not eating meat for 30 days.


Frog story number two to me: 

I can think of many people who are this sort of frog. A few coworkers of mine who constantly complain about their job instantly come to mind. How they are underpaid, undervalued, under this under that. Yet they don't make any big changes and gradually become numb as they are boiled alive.

If you have the capability to dream and imagine than you can jump out of that pot.

And a leaving thought for the day:
Dream big, because everybody else is dreaming small.