Tonight I saw a while the TV program "The colored mice." Occasionally I like to take a look because they interview interesting people, apart from being nice to meet famous people from another point of view closer and often more relaxed. Another type of people featured in this program are subject anonymous interviews, people usually strange and original as "Giggles" or as it was the "Brother in Law."
Today I have not seen the interview of someone "weird" or even someone famous, although it certainly was, but not for me. I mean Jorge Bucay. Argentine psychiatrist appears to be a very popular there, unfortunately I've only heard a bit of his talk and a charming story with a wonderful moral to be taken into account. Fortunately I found online, but it when it was presented to Jesus Quintero gave him another "touch" by making it more special.
has a beautiful moral that we should have all always there when we feel incompetent, obtuse or who knows what feelings of inferiority.
The story is as follows:
When I was a kid I loved the circus, and what I liked most were the animals in circuses. I too like others, then I found out, I was struck by the elephant. During the function, the huge beast was deployment of its weight, size and enormous strength ... but after his performance and even a while before returning to the stage, the elephant was bound only by a chain that imprisoned one of its legs to a small stake in the ground.
However, the stake was only a tiny piece of wood buried just a few inches into the ground. And although the chain was thick and powerful it seemed obvious that the animal can start a tree by the roots with their own strength, could easily start and run the stake.
The mystery is obvious: What keeps
then?
Why not flee?
When I was five or six years, I still trusted in the wisdom of the greats. I then asked a teacher, to a father or an uncle by the mystery of the elephant. Some of them explained that the elephant does not escape because he was trained. I
then the obvious question: "If you're trained
why it strung?
not remember receiving any coherent response.
Over time I forgot the mystery of the elephant and the stake ... and only remembered when I was with others who had asked the same question.
few years ago I discovered that lucky for me someone was wise enough to find the answer: The elephant in the circus
not escape because it has been tied to a stake similar from I was very, very small.
I closed my eyes and imagined the little newborn subject to the stake.
I am sure that at that time the elephant pushed, pulled and sweated trying to get loose. And despite all his efforts failed.
The stake was certainly very strong for him.
swear he fell asleep exhausted and the next day tried again, and at the other and it was ...
Until one day, a terrible day for its history, the animal accepted their impotence and resigned to their fate.
This elephant huge and powerful, we see in the circus, does not escape because he believes "poor" can not. He has a record
and a reminder of his helplessness, powerlessness that he felt shortly after birth.
And the worst is that it never has become a serious challenge that record.
Never ... ever ... I tried to test his strength again ... Let the world
tied to hundreds of stakes that we remain free ... conditioned by the memory of 'I can not "...
Your only way to know is to try again in an attempt to put all your heart ...
Jorge Bucay, "counts for Demian"
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