When I was a child, I convinced my mother to buy me a hermit crab at the pet store. It was in a beautiful white shell that I dumped on the kitchen table, but to my surprise and horror, it sprung to life with a huge claw and tentacles and started to move along the surface toward the edge while everybody was in shock and screaming. I reached out my hand to prevent it from falling and it grabbed me with its claw before I finally put it into its fish bowl home.
The hermit crab seemed lonely so I bought another hermit crab as a playmate which it immediately killed hence the "hermit" moniker.
One night we heard some noise and noticed the "naked" hermit crab crawl out of its shell and into a smaller shell which is all we had in the bowl, then reconsider and go back into its original shell.
There are lessons to be learned from hermit crabs that apply to people in general.
1. Most people only show you a fraction of their real self while erecting walls and hiding behind a false façade for everyone to see.
2. People rarely show you the ugly nature hidden behind their pretty shell until one day they bite you when least expected.
3. Being friends with a "hermit" can be a dangerous gesture.
4. People are not always the beautiful entities they portray but crabby little motherfuckers looking for a better shell.
5. If the hermit crab in your life dies, don't go looking for another hermit crab. Find a hobby or walk in the park. You will better off in the long run. Maybe adopt a parakeet.
6. Even though I am a bit crabby and rough around the edges, I expose more of who I am behind the shell than most BLOGGERS here as horrifying as that may be. I even exposed that I like the song "Shimmy Shimmy Coco Bop" and I am NOT gay, not that that is a bad thing.
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