I hope you were able to find 4 minutes to watch yesterday's hermit crab video.
If not, the short version is:
- sometimes a bunch of hermit crabs line up in a row,
- from smallest to biggest, and, then,
- they each swap shells with the next-biggest hermit crab.
In human land, it's kinda like when:
- the CEO of a business retires, and,
- one of her subordinates takes her job, and,
- one of his subordinates takes his job,
- and so on.
The lovely thing with the hermit crabs is that they end up with a nice new home that has plenty of room for them to grow into.
The lovely thing for people (when they move into a "bigger shell" at work) is that they don't have to grow physically, but they do have to grow in oh-so-many other ways.
The hardest bit?
- Gracefully abandoning the things they were already good.
- While entrusting the person who took their old job to do it well, even though they're still learning the ropes.
If you ask me, the hermit crabs have it easy.
Clarke