A Python Around Your Shoulders is a great object lesson in VALUE.
An old pal is an Army padre.
He invited us to the regiment’s Christmas Ball once year. The army splash out big on social events for the men and women in uniform. No expense spared. Fire-eaters. Expensive food and alcohol. Top-notch local band to rock you into the wee small hours. Breakfast served at 2am (in case you hadn’t already stuffed yourself silly ….)
And a man with a 4-metre-long python …
Offering you the chance to wear it. (Says they’re great pets, very docile. Provided you feed it a rat every day ….)
It reminded me of film footage I’d seen of a battle between a boa constrictor and a crocodile. After considerable thrashing around in the swamp, they called it a draw and slunk off in search of easier prey. But what I remember most was the narrator’s line:
“Each would feed the other …. for a year.”
Mice and birds go in search of small quantities of food, multiple times a day. Wolves can go a few days between meals. Lions, tigers, bears, longer still.
Crocs and boas? Up to a year between Big Paydays. (Unless they settle for rats, daily.) In between? They just goof off beside the pool. Plotting their next conquest.
So which are you? Just because you need three square meals a day, doesn’t mean your means of income needs to follow suit.
Exciting fact: Unlike animal, Human Beans can CLIMB the food chain.
The bigger the interval, the bigger the Payday.
