I’m travelling somewhere in the coastal region of Kerala/Karnataka, and today, I happened to visit a famous temple nearby. After the darshan, I couldn’t help but notice the huge temple elephant being bathed by the mahoot while it was busy gobbling up a branch of a tree. Man, it was ultra huge with those majestic tusks beaming with pride. I spent a good 40 minutes just looking at it, and wondering what must’ve been going through it’s mind. There was something that bothered me though. The iron chain which was used to tie the elephant to the tree.
I mean, it’s a goddamn elephant and there’s no way you could hold it back with a friggin iron chain, but there it was, standing all calm and chewing something which I highly doubt was anything but tasty. We’ve seen elephants destroy places, break down vehicles, crush trees, and snapping out of a little chain would’ve been a piece of cake for it, but – for some reason – this giant which should’ve been ruling it’s kingdom in the forest by now, was chained somewhere in the human world, with all it’s glory.
Why didn’t it try to fight? Why didn’t it bother trying? Just why?
Wait, maybe it did.
Maybe it gave it’s best shot at snapping out of it at some point of it’s life but couldn’t succeed.
Maybe all of this happened when it was baby elephant, and an iron chain was too much for it back then.
Maybe it just grew older trying to fight it, but eventually gave up and accepted it’s fate and stopped trying.
Years later, it’s now one of the strongest species walking on the planet and yet it’s a pet to us, the puny homo sapiens.
It’s gonna spend the rest of it’s lifetime believing that it’s been chained by a metal, but in reality, it’s chained by it’s thoughts. How pathetic!
Why is this crazy kid saying all this?
Somewhere deep down, didn’t it feel like I was talking to you?
Aren’t you similar to this majestic mammal?
Don’t you have the guts and the capacity to move the world but you simply don’t admit the fact that you’re capable of it?
Don’t you have what it takes to be rich, to be powerful,to be happy and create a change?
Hell yes you do! You’re bloody awesome than you could ever imagine.
But why doesn’t anything happen?
Why?
It’s the same chain again. The chain of illusion. It’s that chain made by your parents, your teachers, your friends, your society, and your surroundings that has kept you nailed at a point where you just can’t move and make a choice.
That chain is your limitation for life. That chain is holding you back from making your dreams into a reality. Unless you realize you’ve been chained, there’s no way you’re getting out of it. Ever.
So close your eyes, open your mind and look at your life. Visualize the chain that is holding you back from your best self and break it down into pieces, because you can, because you weren’t just meant to be some mediocre specimen working his ass off just to survive for as long as possible and die someday. It’s simply not cool.
Now wake up and snap out of it. Shoot me in the head if your life doesn’t change thereafter. I’ll be waiting. Period.
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only option left.
Heck, too much advice for today. I should stop.
Engine starts. Helmet on. The journey of this sane lunatic continues.
