Can you see it? A snail has climbed up the window! I don’t know what it intends . Do you think it’s enjoying the suction the glass allows? Would there be microscopic particles of food on the glass? How will it turn to get back to the ground. Should I intervene or would that be like helping a chrysalis turn into a non flying butterfly because I prevented it from developing the skills needed while in its cocoon of safety?
In the second photo you can see it turning but it seems to find its shell top heavy and is turning back upwards.
In the last photo you can see I’ve had to intervene as I was worried that
the higher it climbed the more gravitational potential energy it gained. If it fell , its potential energy would be converted into kinetic energy then it will move at a faster speed and its shell could smash.
It’s weird how the quote is used in the context of your career, your position in life but falling from the heights of power could smash the fragile shell of self esteem.
Did my snail take on more than it could cope with?
That can’t really be compared to those guilty of rising to great heights then serving time in prison for fraud such as Madoff, currently serving 150 year prison sentence.
Those who have climbed to a position of power should use it for the good of others, for the benefit of mankind.
I have sympathy for my snail. I think it was just being adventurous. It is now in the grass and heading for a smaller wall thankfully.
