The Elephant Rope As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not. He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, 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 man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were. Like the elephants, how many of us g...
Fulfilling a Promise
Ever since the beginning, the girl’s family members
disagree with her relationship with the boy. Saying that because of family
background, if she insists on being together with the boy, she’ll suffer for her
whole lifetime.
Because of the pressure applied by family members,
she frequently quarrels with him. The girl does love the boy, she used to ask
him, “How much do you love me?” Because the boy is not good with words, he used
to make her angry. With additional comments from her parents, her mood gets even
worse. The boy has become her “anger releasing target”. And the boy, just
silently allowed her to continuously release her anger on him.
Later, the boy graduated from University. He plans to
further study overseas but before he left. He proposed to the girl… ” I, don’t
know how to say nice words but I do know that I love you. If you agree, I am
willing to take care of you, the whole life. About your family members, I will
work hard to convince them and agree on us.”
“Marry me,
will you?”, the girl agreed.
And her parents, looking at the effort shown by the
boy, agreed with them. Finally, before the boy goes overseas, they are engaged.
The girl stays back in the hometown, step into the working society whereas the
boy continuing his study overseas. They maintained their relationship through
telephone and letters. Although time is difficult to get through with, BUT both
of them never give up.
One day, the girl left home for work as usual on her
way to the bus stop, a car loses control and knocks her down. As she awake from
unconsciousness, she saw her parents and realizes how seriously she got hurt and
how fortunate of her, not to get killed.
Looking at her parents, with their faces got all wet
by their tears, she tried to comfort them. But then, she found out that She
can’t even spell out a word, she tried her best to make some voice but all she
managed, was to breathe without any voice. She’s mute. According to the doctor,
the injury affected her brain, and that causes her to be mute for the rest of
her life. Listening to her parents persuade, but can’t even reply with a single
word, the girl collapsed. Throughout the days, others than crying silently, still
it is crying.
Later, the girl discharged from the hospital. Returning
to her home, everything is still like before. Except that the phone ring has
turned into the worst nightmare of hers. Ring after ring, continuously
stimulate her, stimulating her pain But she can’t tell the boy. She doesn’t want
to be a burden to him and wrote him a letter telling him that she no longer
want to wait, the relationship between them ended, and even returned him the
engagement ring. Facing the letters and telephone from the boy, all she can do is to allow tears to fall from her eyes.
Her father decided to move, after seeing the pain
she is suffering. Hoping that she could forget everything and be happier in a
new environment, the girl started to learn, slowly picking up sign language and
start over again. Also telling herself to forget the boy.
One day, her best friend tells her that the boy’s
back. He’s searching all around for her, she asked her best friend not to tell
him about her and asked her to tell him to forget her. After that, for more than
a year there was no news of the boy. One day her best friend tells her, that the
boy is getting married soon, and passed the Wedding Card to her. She opens the
card sadly, but she found her name on the card.
The moment she wants to ask her best friend, the boy
appears in front of her. With an unfamiliar sign language, he told her ”I spent
more than a year’s time, to force myself to learn sign language, in order to
tell you, I have not forgotten our promise, give me an opportunity, let me be your
voice. I love you. “Looking at the slow sign language by the boy, and the
engagement ring she gave back to him, She finally smiled.
Moral: Do not
be a coward and run away whenever there is a problem, remember that every problem has a solution, never ever break someone’s heart, you may not know when
it will happen to you.
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