Catching the Wild Beast

Isn't this little guy cute?  Don't you want to hold him in his arms and take him home with you?  And squeeze him and love him (I mean, minus the rabies and eye infections and potential claw marks across your face...)

What would you do if you saw this bundle of fluff, and love and affection overwhelmed your senses to the point of doing drastic things?  Well, let's start with feeding the creature.  We all have this urge to catch wild things, or lure them to us, especially to feed them.  It's like a sport...can we feed the wild beast right out of our hands? If we can, we are Mighty Hunter.  The Trusted One.  

To catch a squirrel, grabbing it and squeezing it and shoving the crust of your sandwich into its mouth is not a good idea (if you can actually catch a wild squirrel like that, you deserve a purple heart.). What if it's not even hungry? And what if it's mother got squeezed to death before its very eyes?   I can't imagine that going over so willfully....so instinctively, we usually drop a piece in front of us--several feet in front-- and sit very, very still.  We wait.  Silently.  Breathing ever so quietly. 

The squirrel may or may not come any closer.  Let's say, in this case, it does....

Fluffy looks around, looks at you, looks at the food.  Takes about 2 steps forward.  (If you flinch at this point it runs madly through the bushes.)  It stops.  It takes another couple of steps...

It comes a LITTLE closer.  Then it RUNS towards the bread, grabs it, and either devours it, or runs away with it in its grasp...

If you want it to come back, you don't grab at it madly.   You probably keep dropping crumbs until it trusts you enough...and eventually, probably after several tries, maybe even after several days, the squirrel finally feels it can eat out of your hands.

Now, imagine this in dating...

You see that person....the affection overwhelms you....

Get it?  Just a thought. Ha!  Nothing scares people away like being grabbed at, either physically or emotionally.  Amen and amen.  (And that is your lesson on how to catch girls.)