By Dr Paul Bundi Human beings are endowed with remarkable resilience, which can only be broken when they choose to give up. Says Viktor Frankl in his seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning; ''it is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future-sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in thd most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.'' Man's life is primarily driven by the desire for future, the unshakable belief that the future holds promise. We invariably cease to live when we think we have hit a dead end, or that there's nothing more to be had by living. Theoretically, there is no limit to man's achievement, and that is what drives men to wake up and strive day after day. The opposite is spiritual, psychological death, which manifests way ahead of physical death. Lesson? Losing today doesn't mean losing always. You can lose 10 times and win the 11th time. Or, you...
A gentleman was walking through an
elephant camp, and he spotted that the
elephants weren’t being kept in cages or
held by the use of chains.
All that was holding them back from
escaping the camp, was a small piece of
rope tied to one of their legs.
As the man gazed upon the elephants, he
was completely confused as to why the
elephants didn’t just use their strength to
break the rope and escape the camp. They
could easily have done so, but instead,
they didn’t try to at all.
Curious and wanting to know the answer,
he asked a trainer nearby why the
elephants were just standing there and
never tried to escape.
The trainer replied;
“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 only reason that the elephants weren’t
breaking free and escaping from the camp
was that over time they adopted the
belief that it just wasn’t possible.
Moral of the story:
No matter how much the world tries to
hold you back, always continue with the
belief that what you want to achieve is
possible. Believing you can become
successful is the most important step in
actually achieving it.
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