THOUGHTS OF FEMOLAD: POLITICS AND CRABS IN A BUCKET
You may just wonder what Politics has to do with Crabs.
“Crabs in a bucket.” Is an anthropomorphism of the behavior of crabs when two or more are in a bucket .
If a single crab is put in a bucket it easily climbs out.
But when you put a bunch of crabs in a bucket, don’t bother covering it, you can travel and come back and you’ll meet all of them together.
This is so because the crab spirit is such that the crabs will not allow any of the crabs to successfully climb out of that bucket. If any of them tries to, the others will bring out their claws and pull the other one down, not because they want to go out, but so the other one doesn’t go up or escape.
When one crab attempts to escape the first time, others pull it back. If it attempts a second time, others may break its claws and render it incapacitated.
So, not a single of the crabs can escape as they work against one another.
In Politics, as in all of Life, there are people with the Crab Spirit in them.
They always detest seeing others climb out of the “Bucket” and in doing so end up perpetually grounded in the “Bucket”.
Every opportunity you have to push someone up, do it and do it well, it doesn’t take anything from you.
A candle looses nothing from lighting another candle, but some just cant stand another being lighted.
Stop trying everything to pull people down. It’s the crab spirit, deal with it.
Where you know a little support from you can take someone far, give it.
No one has ever gone up by pulling another down.
It doesn’t matter if they will give you the accolades or not, just do what you know can help a dream come true.
You have the ability to be someone that others can grab on to in their attempt to improve their own lives.
Someone somewhere is counting on you to be stronger than they are, and they will only know how strong you are if you keep moving forward yourself regardless of how many others are clamped on.
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| Femi Ladapo (Femolad) writes from Ibadan, Nigeria |
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