The heavens declare the glory of God. The seas tell a few wild tales, too. Here's an interesting fact as best told by a hopelessly landlubbering shepherd.

Have you ever seen caught lobsters in a cage, properly called a lobster pot? There is a mystery here I'd like to explain. When caught, separated and loaded into baskets headed for the seafood market, lobsters do not escape. What is weird is that the baskets don't have lids. Yep, they take that last lone walk to the market in a convertible basket mere inches from freedom, doomed as dinner.

What keeps them bound in their lobster prisons when all they have to do is climb out and run, (crawl, bebop sideways, wriggle???) for the water? What keeps any lobster from a successful pailbreak are his fellow inmate lobsters.

When Louie the Lobster decides to bust out, he heads for the top of the heap crawling over the mound of other lobsters who are no doubt as miserable as he. And when finally Louie makes it to the top and tries to crawl out, there's no chance for a successful escape. The other lobsters grab him by the tail, claw, whatever and drag him right back in the basket every time. Yet another edible decapod to be boiled alive.

Now if these crustaceans would look past their personal miseries and see that they are all literally in the same basket, and the lemon tartar sauce is chilling quickly, they might figure out that the only way to freedom is to help each other escape. But lobster nature being what it is, they all stay captive held by invisible chains in misery together, singing that seafood blues.

Next time you see someone with their eyes on a prize no one else can see, don't grab for their tail and pull them back to mediocre living. Push them up and over. Who knows? They might reach back and help pull you up and over, too.

Loving your neighbor just might keep both of you out of boiling hot water.

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