When a man was walking outside in the zoo, he was passing some elephants. Suddenly he stopped, ___1___ by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small ___2___ tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was ___3___ that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.
He saw a ___4___ nearby who taught them skills and asked why these animals just stood there and made no ___5___ to get away. “Well,” the trainer said, “when they are very young and much ___6___ we use the same size rope to tie them and. At that age, it’s ___7___ enough to hold them. As they grow up, they still ___8___ that they can not break away from the rope. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break ___9___.”
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their thin ropes but because they believed they couldn’t, they were ___10___ right where they were.
Like the ___11___, how many of us go through life hanging onto a ___12___ that we cannot do something, ___13___ because we failed at it once before? ___14___ is part of learning: we should never stop the struggle in life. So when we meet any difficulty in our life, we should try to find ways to fight with it ___15___ we succeed at last.
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