Elephant's Rope
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 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?
Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.
Summary
The story that I've found was talking about an elephant that not getting escape and the elephant is only tied by a rope. Why could this happen? A man came nearly into the elephant and thinking on his mind "but how can a big creature as that is not breaking away? It only tied by a rope!" Then he asked the trainer. Then the trainer told him that since the elephant was very young, the trainer tied a rope at the front legs of the elephant. Then the elephant seems to be believe that after a long time that he tied by a rope since very young, when he grew up the rope is still at his legs. The elephant believe that he cannot breaking a way from it even it is only a rope. The man that asked to the trainer was amazed. 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?
Failure is part of learning, we should never give up the struggle in life. Don't get tired of being trying anything. What you need to do is just keep chasing on what are you going to reach. Don't easily give up on something just because you had failed for one moment. Don't give up because god creates human as the most respected and the smartest thing alive on earth. He gave you brain to think positively. Not to thinking negatively which can make you not improving.
