Show
me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure… Thomas Edison
There
are shells that enclose each and every one of us. These shells might act as
comfort zones at a certain point in time. They might
even act as shields from the harsh world around us. But it comes a time when
they become barriers to keep us from the people that we are destined to be.
These shells are in actual fact restrictions and boundaries that limit the way
and extent of our movements in life. They limit our growth both spiritual and
mental, as well as our success. Sometimes and most of the time they limit our
ways of thinking. I have seen so many who cannot think anything beyond what
they are right now. They cannot think anything beyond their boundaries.
"Think nothing
beyond your reach to avoid disappointments." one man once told me but what
then is my reach if I believe that only the sky is the limit?
A hen lays an egg
and for three weeks during the incubation period a chick grows inside the shell
of that egg. But it is not God's plan for the chick to stay in that shell
forever. It comes a time when the chick becomes dissatisfied and realise that
it does not belong in a shell. Its time to BREAK FREE!
Poverty, financial
constraints, family background, lack of formal education, hurts, physical
disabilities amongst other things can act as shells to keep us from the people
we are destined to be. There is a need for us to break free from them.
One of the biggest
hindrances to any form of progression in life is satisfaction. Satisfaction is
our biggest enemy and we all suffer from it. Satisfaction leaves no room for
any imagination. People who are satisfied in life do not dream and people who
don’t dream do not develop. They are tattering along the road to nowhere.
People can be
classified into two different categories, the chickens and the eagles. Chicken
are satisfied with a pen of limitations, scratching and scouring in the dirt
and happy and content with whatever worms they find in the dirt. There are so
many who are exactly like this. They are satisfied with lives of little
achievements, little success, hanging on to little things, struggling along in
life whilst others are dreaming and making it big.
Eagles on the other
hand are those that refuse to be pulled down by their circumstances and fight
hard to make the best of what they have. They are always soaring in the sky,
doing great things and never content with their present and past achievements.
This is because they always know they can do more.
“Don’t
be a chicken scratching and scouring in the dirt whilst eagles are flying up
high in the sky!”
Stop being
satisfied with your life and your past achievements for you can do more. Chicks
that get too satisfied with the shells fail to realise that there is a life
beyond the shell. They fail to realise that it’s time to break free from the
shells and unfortunately they die in the shells before they hatch. There
are so many who have already condemned themselves to lives of little
achievements. They never try to think beyond their barriers.
They are so many
who are always content with the way they have always been doing things. “But
this is how we have always been doing it! “They always say whenever introduced
to a new method of doing things. They are too comfortable with the way they
have always been doing things and to them any form of change is disruptive and
they will try by all means to avoid it. They are stuck in ruts and these ruts
are their shells.
Are you stuck in a
rut? When was the last time you ever tried anything new - a new method or even
a new recipe? When was the last time you ever been to a new place? Its time to
seek new ways of doing things and break your routines. Seek fresh inputs to
life, read books, take classes - go back to school if you have to, watch a
movie and always be up to date with what’s happening around you. It’s time to
do something new for a change.
There is a life
beyond what you are right now - it’s real
There is a life
beyond your circumstances - you can get there
And there is
nothing that can stop you from achieving it…
