As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped,
confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small
rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the
elephants could, at any time can break away from their bonds but for some
reason, they did not.
He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood
there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are
very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that
age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe
they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they
never try to break free.”
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free
from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right
where they were.
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto
a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once
before?
Moral:
Some times the things which holds us down are the conditioned mind. Our Mind is conditioned that you can not this and that, you will fair. Just like the elephant. you need to pull up yourself cause the things we fear are sometimes not real, they exist in our mind because we are conditioned to FEAR.
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