Hmmm… I don’t know what to call this!!

Okay…my absence must have ensured that noone reads my blog anymore … anyways so I went to see this movie called 10,000 BC ( I usually call it 3000 BC but it doesn’t matter since the people were so advanced ) It was an okay movie, understandable….simple story….I just wish there were more sabre tooth tigers and I was quite aghast at the killing of the mammoth….they are so cute ….I would’ve rather seen all the people die in the movie than that one mammoth….and the prehistoric birds were quite horrifying…Strengthened my fear of birds ( which is not a good thing!! ) I always feel that a bird is going to peck through my skull or my eyes or maybe i should stop before someone throws up …..

So when I was watching the movie, there is this scene in which the hero whatever his name was had to infuriate a mammoth to break his chains that were tying him and charge towards the bad guys… It reminded me of this story which has been used in management lore for quite some time now….about how elephants are chained to a pole when they’re young which is strong enough to hold them but as they grow older, the chain is replaced by a flimsy rope which is even easier to break but since the elephant’s brain has been trained into believing that he’s stuck with the pole , he( or she , i’m not trying to be sexist…maybe i should use it from now ) or it would not even try to break free…..I’m sure most of us would laugh at the predicament of the poor elephant but we would never acknowledge the fact that it happens to us too….countless times with or without us knowing it….we have this voice in our heads….”You should’nt even try doing it because you’re not good enough”, ” I wouldn’t even let you change the lightbulb in my house “( I can’t take credit for this quote, credit belongs to one of the professors from the undergrad institute i studied in..no wonder im so screwed up ) that it becomes hardcoded in our brain. Now it is quite stupid ( my vocabulary sucks i know ) for us to believe that we can change this in seconds……..these negative feelings have been coded in the brain and to remove them would take a lot of time…..but still nothing remedies the situation better than to show ourselves that we can do it……if it is hardcoded in our brain that we can’t do something, the fact that we even did part of it will start reversing the process…..and if we keep on trying one day the same thing we could not do will be stored in the brain as ” as easy as falling off a log”. We always make up excuses, we are too old….our time is gone ( Okay I have been reminded that I shouldnt make my problems universal so i shall start using me instead of us ) but the fact of the matter is, just because our brain has been programmed to do something in some way , it doesnt mean that it cannot be reprogrammed. It is definitely true that it is easier when its younger when we dont have to deal with so much reprogramming but who says its not possible when you become older. Its just a matter of time and patience. ‘You can achieve anything in life as long as you have belief in yourself’ That belief is going to make you strive to achieve the impossible. Challenge yourself. Pull that small piece of rope which ties you to the pole. You will be surprised how weak it is and how strong you are. Your mind has a lot of power. It has made the rope as strong as the strongest of steel. Think the same about yourself and there will be nothing you cannot achieve.

So I finally close this blog entry with a quote i read a long time ago. It is by Marianne Williamson

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

~ by lazysud on March 18, 2008.