You know that saying about a frog in a pot?

How you can put a frog in boiling water and it’ll jump straight out, but if you put a frog in tepid water and slowly increase the heat, it’ll adjust and adjust until it dies?   -Nathaniel, from the novel “I Have Lost My Way” by Gayle Forman

Survival. How do we look at it? Is survival a place of comfort, ease, and familiarity? Is survival just getting by? I am reading the novel from where the above thought comes from, as the character Nathaniel, surmises how he is dead and has been for a long time now because he stayed in the water (a place of complacency) too long until he succumbed to the normalcy of it.

1. Do we become complacent in a situation where we’ve existed too long? Have we normalized the place where…