The Elephant And The Rope

Some
Belief That Binds Us To Grow

We all
know the elephant is very strong and big in size, and a rope or normal chain can’t hold him if
they try to break.

Humans
are very small and weak compared to the elephant but they can control with a simple
stick to train them with a belief that they can control an animal that is 15 to 20 times stronger than him.

If
elephant even think to resist the human, then the human is not able to stop them. The above situations show how a belief can be stronger to hold a strong elephant to think out of the box and in the case of humans it helps to speed up our motivation. 

There
was a  boy who was gone to visit grandfather village with his parents. The village was very beautiful and there
was a jungle near the village. One day the boy requested his father to go to Jungle
and visit the animals. His grandfather was listening and he said to the kid, I
will take you to the jungle where there are many elephants.

In next
morning boy was very ready and very excited to visit the elephants. His
grandfather takes with him in the jungle.

The boy
saw there was a very place that was made to live for elephants. There were
many elephants just wandering here and there, they were not kept in any
security like cages or using any chains to tie them.

The boy was very surprised to see and asked his
grandfather that there are many elephants in the camp and only they are tied
with normal rope. 

They are very strong and big than humans. If they want to go
outside the camp, they can easily break the rope.

The boy curiously asked his grandfather why the elephant is not trying to escape by break the rope to be free himself.

His grandfather
smiled and told him about

(i)How our belief form? 

(ii)What is the effect of belief?                     

The people who train
elephants use the same rope from the very start when these elephants were very
young and they can’t break the rope at that time.

 During the growing up of elephants, Trainers
make them believe that they can’t break the rope and free himself. 

Due to long
time practice elephants start to believe that they can’t break the rope and never
try to go away and to stop them don’t require cages. 

Actually
this is very true and it happens in our life. We always try to do something
in our life and maybe we got failed sometime,some of us started to believe and hold or bind themselves in the belief that they can not get success in their work. One who tries beyond the past beliefs they always get success.

 We should
not limit ourselves in a boundary of a belief that can be break by our constant hard work. We should live how we want to, not according to others. 

Try to stand up and go again for your goal, maybe you fail but you should not stop your self until
you get success because practice makes man perfect and failure gives us a lesson on how we can achieve our goal.

MORAL OF
THE STORY

 
                    “No
matter how much some people or society try to stop us to go ahead in our life, we
should always try to continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is
possible. Experience this belief by breaking all boundaries which stop you to
achieve your goal. You can only decide what you can do with your life, not
society or any person.”

 

Thank you