THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN (Part 1).
Here comes some FROG-WISDOM (as in, "some questioned the "wisdom" of building the dam so close to an active volcano..."). All excerpts are from my ©2022 book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QML8BQN
NOTE: Where have the last couple years of our human history gone? We've been derailed by the COVID-19 virus, shook up over so many changes in daily life, new patterns of work and travel, difficulty raising children without open schools, eating at home with our self-styled menus, hoping this modern plague will lift. In the meantime, frogs keep croaking, and here’s one trying to provide some “teachable moments.”
THE GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN
In the later years, after the human race was saved from extinction, other wise frogs had asked the key questions. In frog-talks; where the greatest frog-minds had gathered, where they had dissected the decisions of their queen, it had become apparent that she had been smarter than basically any other frog (or human) that had ever lived.
What had she done? Well, to the amazement of writers, philosophers, scientists and architects, fellow politicians and artists of her generation, she had given the humans a "second chance."Second chance meant that on their first try they had been wrong – horribly wrong about just about everything. And during those tenuous years when a first wrong decision could have obliterated every living thing on the planet, most frogs didn’t think handing down a second chance was a very good idea. Only the queen did. Queen Gertrude. Only she. One frog, and not a large or very pretty one at that. The queen was an off-green, some said. She had a harsh croak, others mentioned.
And she wasn’t the best ‘mixer,’ confided her sometimes frog-mate, explaining that she often said the opposite of what most frogs wanted to hear. Frankly, how she ever reached the goal of turning the human-thing around was the greatest mystery of all. But she foresaw that (1) by giving their misguided leader enough rope, he would (2) sooner or later generate enough backlash to create a ‘teachable moment,’ through no fault of his own.
Still, how did the queen know that drowning him in power, giving him limitless gold/wealth and bully-pulpit – in short everything – would bring about the necessary changes? The frog-council had trouble with that one.
The queen relaxed back into her lily pad, took in a big gulp of air, then expelled it in her usual croaking fashion, and began to explain her philosophy about second-chances.
“You see, if there isn’t something great and grand to lose, then the human beings don't easily understand the difference between succeeding and failing. They keep track of success through something called money.
“And money translates into power. When a human has both of these elements, then he or she also gains prestige, which gives them ample opportunities to play out all the damage that occurred to them during childhood. Mainly, if there wasn’t enough love transferred to the child, he or she acts out this pain as an adult, hurting as many people as they possibly can. It’s just a matter of cause and effect.
OH, said the frog chorus, WE SEE. YES, added some others.
IT'S SO VERY CLEAR!
THANKS.
This kind of unified positive response was pretty impressive, because growing up as a frog was quite a different experience than that of growing up human. First of all, frogs didn't have any money. And since frogs didn’t wear clothes either, there were no pockets in which to put any coins or dollar bills anyhow. Of course, credit cards were a no-no too.
What else was different for frogs?
(To be continued)
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PART-2 COMING UP NEXT: Queen Gertrude has more to say, in her upcoming pages. (Includes some good info on various types and colors of the most poisonous reptiles to ever hop around in the amazon basin!)