Temperatures rise
Piles of frogs mate in the ponds.
People post pictures.
One thinks of frogs jumping away. Tree frogs, pond frogs, all try to escape when you approach. Not for them the rabbit approach of complete stillness, don’t move and you won’t be seen. Even though both rabbits and frogs have strong hind legs, and jumping away is surely the best option, their reflexes act differently. This doesn’t count in spring, when all bets are off. The reflexes act on the other primal instinct of mating. Sometimes you just have to pay attention to the matter at hand, despite the dangers that surround you.
I wonder about my own reflexes. Sometimes I jump away, sometimes I hide in stillness. I guess it depends on the sort of attack and my power to evade. If it’s something slower or stupider, I jump away. If it’s more powerful, I go into rabbit mode. Right now, I’m in rabbit mode. I want to escape this country, but the craziness is more powerful than I am, and there’s no place to which I can jump away.
God, I wish I could jump, jump, jump away.
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