The tied elephants [a motivational story]

One day, a young man was passing some elephants, he suddenly stopped, this is because he was confused by the fact that the very huge elephants were being held only by small roses tied to their front legs. No chains, neither was there any of them in a cage. It was quite obvious that all of the elephants could, go off from their bonds but for certain reasons which the young man could not imagine, they did not. He saw the elephant keeper nearby, went to him, greeted him and asked why the animals just stood there without making any attempt to get away. "Well," said the elephant keeper "when the elephants very young and still very small, we use the same size of rope to tie them and, at that tender age, it was 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, as it could do when they were small and so, they never made any attempt to break free.The young man was so amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but for the fact that they believed they couldn't be free, they were stuck right where they were.

Moral lesson: Just Like the elephants, many of us go through life holding unto a particular thought or 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. Continual effort and attempt will set you free from certain conditions holding you back from making success.


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This story was submitted by: Damilola Deborah