023 Save for the Lean Days
Hey Camel, your hump holds no water, only fat. You store it when food is plenty and live on it when the desert gives nothing.
What are we storing for the lean days?
What are you saving today for the lean days?
Golden dunes stretch to the horizon. Not a tree, not a well, not a blade of grass in sight.
A camel walks across it calmly, its hump rising against the sky.
What really happens
Many people think the camel's hump is full of water. It is not. It is fat.
When food is plenty, the camel stores fat in its hump. When the desert gives nothing, it lives on that store, and the hump slowly shrinks.
How we know: Basic camel biology; the 'water in the hump' idea is one of the most common animal myths.
The turn
When things are good, we spend everything: money, energy, kindness, health.
The camel quietly stores some for the days when the desert gives nothing.
Three takeaways
- Good times are when you prepare for hard times.
- Savings are not only money. They are health, friendships and skills too.
- Plan for the desert while you are at the oasis.
The hump is not luggage. It is a plan.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.