Proverbial Boiled Frogs

One of the most valuable lessons in life I learn and applied from school books is the experiment on frogs (or toads rather).

Toads and Frogs are cold blooded amphibians and unlike mammals like humans; amphibians cannot regulate their body temperature, but rely on external sources of heat like sunlight and ambient temperature to regulate their body temperature for survival purposes.

Therefore, if you throw a frog or a toad into a basin of warm water (approximately 36degreesC), they will immediately jump out through reflex instincts.

However, if you place them in a basin of room temperature water, they will just remain in it, even when you start to heat up the water on a stove.

They will just continue to enjoy the cozy jacuzzi of warm water until they are literally boiled to death.

Humans are largely creatives of habits and more often than not, for want of diligence, we end up as proverbial boiled frogs in the comforts of our cozy habits.

Amidst the negative ambiance against "hopping" or "lompat" in the current political scenario of Malaysia, there are indeed merits for hopping out of our insidious comfort zones or die a nice slow boiled death.

So, politicians and people out there, it is OK to jump, hop or "lompat', if survival necessitates it!