Welcome to 39th Monday Musings:
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 anytime, 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 elephant is still a baby, the elephant is tethered by a very thick rope or chain to a stake firmly hammered into the ground.
The elephant tries several times to get free, but it lacks the strength to do so.
After a year, the stake and the rope are still strong enough to keep a small elephant tethered, although it continues to try, unsuccessfully, to get free.
At this point, the animal realizes that the rope will always be too strong and so it gives up.
When it reaches adulthood, the elephant can still remember how, for a long time , it had wasted its energies trying to escape captivity. At this stage, the trainer can tether the elephant with a slender thread tied to a broom handle, and the elephant will make no attempt to escape to freedom.
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
Moral of the story :
Like the elephants, many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we can’t do something, simply because we failed at it once before?
Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.
A limit on what you will do, puts a limit on what you can do. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Never ever Give up.
Make it a great Week !
Shailesh
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