Sunday, October 2, 2016

Break free from your mental prison

Dear Readers,

It is lovely to see you back again !!! Hope you are all having a lovely day.

Today, I want to talk about a topic which is very close to my heart. I want to begin the discussion with the reference to an article that I had read in a book few years back.

There was once a Magician. And, one of the items in his show was of house flies. The house flies always flew in a designated area on the stage. Not even one of them would move out of that area and try to fly away elsewhere. The audience were astonished as to how the magician could train the house flies. One of his subordinates who was learning magic under him asked him the secret for this act. The magician said these house flies were reared within a glass enclosure. These flies were bred inside in the glass enclosure and had never felt the outside world. Their world was limited to the size of the glass enclosure. Only during this act, the magician would lift the glass enclosure. The flies who had never flown beyond the glass walls would stop and turn away at the boundaries of the virtual walls even though they were no longer enclosed. So, this was how the magician made the flies to fly in a designated area.

My friends we are also not very different from these flies. Most of us are bound within some mental prison. We are keeping ourselves confined within the virtual walls of this cell. We only need to dare to break free.

History is only made by those people who have ever tried to make it. We cannot be restricted by any barriers but the ones which are created by ourselves. We need to be daring and take a step towards those things we cherish the most.

In the movie, The Pursuit of Happiness, the character of Will Smith teaches a very important lesson to his son. Both of them are playing basketball. His son is struggling to get the ball into the basket. And, his father criticizes him saying that he is not good enough to play the game. His son feels disappointed and agrees with his dad and starts packing his ball. His dad walks up to him and tells him not to believe in any person who tells him that he cannot play the game well, not even him. He says that people the only reason that people  try to stop or criticize anyone from doing something is because they themselves do not have the courage to do it.

Do not be disappointed by your failures. If you want something, go and get it. Like the movie Hindi Lakshya, remember that "Lakshya to har haal main pana hai!" which translated means "No matter what, I will achieve my goal!".

I hope you liked this article dear friends.

See you again soon.

With Love,
Gunjan.

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