Today I would like to share something with you all. Its something about ‘mind’s jail’ or called as ‘penjara pikiran’ in malay. Hope this story brings good to all of our lives. :p The following story is translated from Indonesian language by me for better understanding of the meaning.
A grasshopper (named it A) is trapped inside a box.
One day, he managed to get out of the box. With full of joy, he hop around enjoying his escape.
On the way, he met another grasshopper (B). He looked at the B grasshopper in confusion on why that grasshopper can hop higher and further than him?
With curiousity he asked, “Why you can hop higher and further than me, while we are having not much difference on age and body size?”
The B grasshopper replied by asking, “Where do you live all this while? All grasshoppers that live freely in this environment can do as what I did.”
Then the A grasshopper realized that all this while, the box he trapped in is the cause of the difference.
Sometimes, as human, without our own notice, we did experience the same thing as the A grasshopper.
Bad environment, humiliation, past trauma, continuous failure, friend’s saying, tradition and all that caused us to be trapped inside the intangible box which unripped our potential.
We always believe purely to what destinied to us without thinking deep whether that something truly exists or whether we are so weak? Worse is when we often choose to believe others than to ourselves.
Did you know that an elephant which is so strong can be tied with rope on just a small pole? Elephant will feel itself unfree or trapped whenever something is tied on its leg. Although that “something” can just be a thin string.
As human, we are able to fight and will not easily just give up to what we are facing. Therefore, keep trying to reach all positive aspiration that we have reaced. There are sickness, tiredness, but if we have reached the top, all the sacrifices is surely paid. Basically, our lives will be much better if we live with our own way of thinking, not with the way that is chosen by others for us.
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written by surfnux
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