Sunday, June 30, 2013
The Chained Elephant
Whenever i see chained elephants, i wonder... how can you hold a huge elephant in one place by a chain around one leg attached to a stake in the ground? Often it looked like the elephant just had to lift its leg and the stake would fly out of the ground. But it does´nt break free. Why?
"....The elephant doesn’t run away because they have been tying him to a similar stake ever since he was very very small too.
I closed my eyes, and I tried to imagine the small, newborn elephant, chained to the ground. The small elephant would push, pull and struggle with all his strength, trying to free himself, but he would fail. Despite all his efforts, he would fail again and again, because that stake and chain was too big for his strength.
The elephant would sleep exhausted from all his efforts to free himself, and would wake up the next day. All his struggles would fail the next day too, and a third day, and a fourth, and many tiresome, exhausting days after those. Then one day would come — a horrible day for the history of our elephant — a day that he would just give up, and accept his fate, deciding that he was too weak to escape, that his strength was not enough and would never be enough.
The huge and immensely powerful elephant that we see in the circus does not run away because the poor animal believes that he cannot do that.
The memory of the lack of strength he felt a little after his birth is now deeply engraved to his very soul and spirit.
The worst of it all is that he has never tried to free himself since.
He never ever tried to test his powers again."
- from http://cnovac.blogspot.de/2011/09/dare.html
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Secrets of the Seven Seas
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround youWhat more is you lookin' for?"
--lyrics from Under the Sea
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
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