Such as?
Such as, for example, whether or not to join the army immediately after school, or get married and have children first, or run for public office after muddling through in business for many years.
Daunted by such potentially life-changing decisions, sometimes we shrink into our collective shell in the same way a turtle or snail or hermit crab withdraws into its shell.
Shrinking into one’s shell may help for the moment. After a while, sooner or later, a decision has to be made as the said turtle, snail or crab has to eventually venture out for, say, food if not for leisure and pleasure.
Oh, well, that’s irrelevant for our current discussion. For now, let’s examine examples of people who crawl back into their shells (either due to shyness or because of embarrassment, shame, guilt or fear, lack of courage or some other reason):
1. A driver who accidentally ran down and killed a great grandmother after revving her car in frustration at two pedestrians dawdling across a road has been jailed.
Natalie Foulser, a 21-year old artist, pressed her foot on the accelerator and clutch to make her engine roar in a bid to force the pair to walk faster over a pedestrian crossing.
But as she carried on driving Foulser stared at the pedestrians and while distracted ran over 75-year old Averil Monks who was still crossing the road.
Mrs Monks a retired hospital nursing sister and member of the local Townswomen’s Guild suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene.
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