ARE YOUR FRIENDS CRABBY?

I guess that question could really include your family as well as your friends. The dictionary would define crabby as an adjective meaning grouchy; ill-natured, irritable or peevish. Although they might fit that description, I can see how you could easily think that was my thought for today but I was honestly thinking of a different type of crabby. Throughout my life, I've tried to expose myself to self-improvement topics via seminars, books, videos, etc. and there is one over riding factor that always seems to be part of the discussion. If you are trying to change your lifestyle by way of your habits, finances, your faith or your health, you will always find those "crabby" friends and family that will exhibit the same behavior that you can observe in a bucket of crabs. Watch them and see how anytime one of them seems to want to break-away from the crowd and do his own thing, the others will reach up and pull him back down into the bucket to be part of their misery and eventual fate. Ever notice how life is like that? If you want to change your life by improving your health and living, eating and disicplining yourself to be healthier, there always seem to be those who want to just reach up, pull you down emotionally and tell you how you can't do that and might as well enjoy what you are and make the best of it. Watch out for those crabs who sit comfortably down in the bucket and persist in pulling you back down. Their fate is not a good one.