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The elephant chained

When I was a kid I loved the circus, and what I liked most were the animals in circuses.
I was struck by the elephant. During the function, the huge beast was deployment of its weight, size and strength huge ... 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 are performing why did you chained?
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 like since 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. I could 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 his impotence and resigned to their fate.
This elephant huge and powerful, we see in the circus, does not escape because he thinks - poor - I can not.
He has record and memory of his helplessness, powerlessness that he felt shortly after birth. And the worst thing that ever 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 ...