With my little experience in life, I have seen intelligent people suffered in life and live like they don't have what it takes to be successful in life simply because their past experience about failure has caused them trauma and the refuse to break it and let it go. Everything that surrounds you might not be encouraging but you must realize that your past mistakes or failure is giving you another way of trying it.
Let me share this story with you;
An old man was passing by some elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge animals were being held by small ropes tied to their legs. 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; you should never give up the struggle in life. All what you have to do is try it one more time.
BREAT IT AND LET GO