The tale, and lesson, of the blue crabs.
When you live near the Atlantic Ocean people catch blue crabs for dinner. As they catch the crabs, they’ll toss them into a bucket or basket. If you only have one crab in the basket, you need a lid to keep it from crawling out, but if you’ve got two or more, you don’t. When there are several crabs, they will drag each other down so that none of them can get away.
There are people like that too aren’t there? People who want to keep others from getting ahead, trying to prevent them from improving themselves or their situation. Why? So, they don’t have to, and they can continue to be comfortable.
I’ve seen that repeatedly, with youth and adults. You need to stay out of the basket with other crabs who just want to pull you down. You can make a choice not to buy into what they believe.
Raise yourself up, and when you do, you’ll raise others with you.
