Pollywog

My effort having been to help people think about themselves as human beings, the tadpole metaphor doesn't work very well for me. It seems to me that the emphasis on personal metamorphosis as an alternative to "fixation on the future" is peculiarly composed. It's the antithesis of lifelong learning, it seems to me, this emphasis on the present and its brief and violently terminated tadpole stage of amphibian lifepattern.

Evidently, however, that's how it feels, and it's good to have the immediacy of your feelings to correct less lived-in senses with. One wonders if there's a way to combine perspectives.