I hope people realize this sooner as one stops growing as we put ourselves in a narrow pot of thought.
Like one of my favorite person said,"all I have is some stories"...Lemme start with a story.
Once there was a boy called Alex. Young Alex lived with his parents in a town in Austria. Alex had two sisters who used to be at the university for their higher studies and hence our little Alex was dad's pet. Dad of Alex was a mechanic and he was a hunter too. So travelling with dad Alex learnt about animals, nature and also used to want to have a lot of pets. But being an asthmatic patient his mom was against the idea.
Once Alex and his mom went to buy fish for the home and the thought of delicious dish mom was supposed to make he was mesmerized in the taste. His mom was a fantastic cook. At the fish market he saw various types of fishes and he started looking at the kinds of lengths and shapes of fishes.there were huge ones and there were small ones, in all colors and all kinds.. Fishermen were chopping the fishes into meat lumps and selling it to the buyers. He was agonized by the site of blood that was stinking from the rugs on the fishermen's table. He was watching on the place when all of a sudden his eyes met on to a small little tiny shining fish which was alive and he saw the man not cutting it.. It was beautiful and he wondered,"Of all the fishes how is this one so tinny and so shiny". He decided to ask the man. For his question his mom told him that it was a tiny shark and that is was capable of becoming really big like his dad. "Oh yea!" he thought. and he asked his mom if he could buy it and keep it as his pet.
Mom thought for a minute and thinking that it is not going to create any illness to anyone in the family agreed to it and bought it as a gift to Alex. Our little camp now owns a pet!!
Alex was too thrilled to get the new member to the family. it was about 7 cm in length and was totally shiny in nature, white and dark ash kind color in the down part.. nice it was to climb on to the penthouse where there was sister's old biology vessel lying unused and keep the fellow for him.Special diet for the new pet was found out and fed everyday and Alex visited him twice a day to inspect if mom kept him clean.
Weeks passed away and Alex remained 4 feet in height but our young fellow in the pot became 15cm in length now about to pop out every and any moment. Dad had a brilliant idea to fry the fellow and make him another dish and Alex wept the whole week to make him convince that he could use him when he really really grows up. So Alex transferred him to an aquarium and promised dad that he will take care to give him a good catch later on.
About a couple of months passed and soon to the horror Alex realized that this fellow is going to make his life miserable if he grows like that. He wasn't anymore fitting in the aquarium. But because of the love for fellow he transferred him into the pool in the garden and kept this fact posted to mom."Pool was big for him" thought our young man.
Some more days passed away and Alex was of the age to go to the university like his sisters. So he went to a janitor as he was very sure that he will need to bid adieu to his friend. Because of the attachment he had for the fellow he couldn't let dad kill him as well. So a janitor was the only option. Janitor had many other similar kinds of pets from many people and our young man was pleased to know that the fellow would get the part of the big pool he had all for himself. So, pleased by the janitors service promise and getting a sign on all the papers our man left the fellow and left for the University.
At university our man missed his pet thought he was always with friends, he decided to go and visit him once his course got over. And while into the course he completely forgot about the fellow and once when sitting for casual chilling out with friends our youngster remembers the years that passed by and the fish was with the janitor.
After the finish of his week he headed home to meet his parents and went next day to the janitor and asked for the fellow. Janitor took him to a lagoon and showed him the SHARK.. it had become so huge that Alex got scared looking at him and helped the authorities for the release of it into the ocean back..
Wonderful story but can we compare the shark to our brain and the holder of the fish to the knowledge base we provide them with?
Our mind is like the shark capable to grow too enormous. but seldom do we let it grow like Alex did. We, behind the bars of our self esteem block it with many a million excuses and it starts to shrink.
CAN WE THINK FOR A MOMENT??