Life of Little Snails

Little Snail asked its mother, "Why do we have to carry these hard and heavy shells on our backs since birth?"

Mother Snail replied, "This is because there is no skeletal support for our bodies. We can only crawl, yet we cannot crawl, yet we cannot crawl fast, so we need to depend on our shells for protection."

Little Snail asked again, "Sister Caterpillar has no bones. Neither can she crawl quickly. Why doesn't she have to carry a hard and heavy shell on her back?'

Mother Snail smiled and said to Little Snail, "This is because Sister Caterpillar will one day become a butterfly when she grows up and she will be protected by the sky!"

Little Snail asked again, "But Little Brother Earthworm has no bones and cannot crawl quickly. He will not become a butterfly either, then why doesn't he has to carry a hard and heavy shell on his back?"

Mother Snail replied, "This is because Little Brother Earthworm can make his way into the soil. The Earth will protect him!"

Little Snail started to cry and said," We are so pitiful! Neither the sky nor the earth will protect us, so we have to carry these hard and heavy shells on our backs."

Mother Snail consoled Little Snails, "Silly child, you ought to take pride in your shell (yourself)! We depend on neither the Sky nor the Earth. Instead we reply on ourselves."

The snail's body is very soft and needs to be protected by an outer shell. The snail lives in its shell, with its heart, lung and all the important organs within the shell. During the dry season, the snail seals up its shell. In Autumn, it will move to a safe place, seal up its shell again and try to thicken the shell, so as to withstand the coldness during winter.

"It is not the strongest species that survives, but the one most adaptable to change." This is the basic law of evolution for biological species in the natural world.

We live in an age that is full of uncertainties and fierce competition. We have to adjust ourselves to various changes, in order to adapt to our environment and life.

If we are not mentally prepared to adapt to the environment, we will feel dazed and encounter multiple obstacles in life.