HOPE ROPE

Trained elephants are often held, in their enclosure, by only a small rope tied to their leg. No chains, no cages. Obviously the elephant can, at anytime, break away from the bond but it does not. Actually, when they are young and much smaller, the trainer uses the same size rope to tie the elephants. 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 animals can at any time break free from their bonds but because they believe they can’t, they remain stuck right where they were. Like the elephants, we too get held back by overpowering bonds of initial conditioning. We go through life hanging onto a negative belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before...

Initial failure often tends to weigh heavy on our belief systems and prevents us from recognising our own potential. But we need to be better at not allowing failure to blur our attitude towards our own aptitude. After all, failure is a part of learning and growth; it cannot become flimsy reason to be held back in life... the conditioning rope has to be undone by holding on to hope inspired committed attempts to transform the situation!

Do not allow failure to hold back liberating hope...
Let’s BE BETTER at escaping the conditioning rope!

- Pravin K. Sabnis