I would like to share with
you this story by Jorge Bucay, which often shows that we are prisoners of our
thoughts and our beliefs.
"When I was little, I loved the circus, and what I
liked most of all, the circus, it was animals. The elephant especially
fascinated me; as I learned later, was
the favourite animal of all children. During his number, the huge beast
exhibited a weight, size and extraordinary strength...
But immediately afterwards and until the next
performance, the elephant was still attached to a small stake stuck in the
ground by a chain that held a his legs
trapped.
But that stake was only a tiny piece of wood down just
a few centimeters into the ground. And although the chain was thick and
resistant, it seemed obvious that an animal capable of uprooting a tree should
easily be able to free themselves and go.
The mystery remained over to me.
So, what prevents it? Why did not he escape? A 5 or 6 years old, I had absolute confidence
in the science of adults. So I asked a teacher, a father and an uncle on the
mystery of pachyderm. One of them explained to me that the elephant did not
escape because it was drawn up.
Then I asked the question that makes sense:
"If it is
drawn up, why do we chains?"
I do not remember that we have a coherent answer me.
As time passed, I forgot the mystery of the elephant
and his stake, do me remembering when I met others who one day, too, had asked
the same question.
A few years ago, I was fortunate to come across someone
learned enough to know the answer:
"The elephant circus not come off
because from very young, he was tied to a similar stake."
I closed my eyes and I imagined the defenseless newborn
elephant, attached to this post. I am sure that at this time the baby elephant
pushed, pulled and sweated trying to free himself, but that the stake is too
strong for him, he did not succeed despite all his efforts.
I imagined that would fall asleep exhausted and the
next day, tried again, and the next ... and the next day ... until one day, a
terrible day for its history, the animal eventually accept his impotence and
resign himself to his fate.
This huge and powerful pachyderm we see the circus does
not escape, the poor, because he believes in being unable.
It keeps the memory engraved impotence, which was hers
after birth. And the worst is that he never tried again to test its strength.
We are all limited by our
beliefs and thoughts that tell us we can not do, we will not get there ...
because he long ago we tried and we failed.
As Elephant we are
convinced that we can not do certain things and never get there. We do not even
try to detach ourselves from "pickets".
The only way to know if
you can do something is to try with all your soul.
What are the stakes to which you are attached? Did you
try to free yourself, to flee? What happened ?
Share your experience with
us.
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