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The frog jumping

One of my friend ever told me that “ if you put frog on the box with tall 7cm for 6 months, the frog just can jump up to 7cm even when we put it on the outside of the box for its whole life”.
The simulation maybe like this : when the frog in the 7cm tall of box for 6 months, it usual for jumping just up to 7cm otherwise the frog can jump more than 7cm, and if we let it go outside the box, on the pond it just can jump up to 7cm like before, shorter than other frogs can do naturally, because it has been limited in jumping.

How about if it isn’t a frog but human, one person, we can called her as X. X always has her own fear : I am not good in English, I am not beautiful, I am not a good speaker, I can’t do debate, I can’t write some writings interestingly, I am not smart enough and bla..blaa..bla.. Are those things right? Maybe not, if she just thinking and talking about that without try to find the real evidence of that, because those are just “the limits” that she creates for herself, she makes herself feel she is nothing and can’t do everything. So when there are lot of opportunities around her, she never brave to try, she always meet the tall wall that prevents her take those, like the frog when big world is on its face it always thinking that it is on the 7cm box not on the pond where it can jump as high as it want. Box not only blocks its ability for jumping but also its mind for thingking it can jump higher than that.

She or you never know for exactly how high is your real limit until you try for jumping, but not jumping in the box but at the pond. You never know you can swim until you try to do it. Opportunities always there, what you have to do is take it, be brave to try, and never felt afraid to lose. The loser is not somebody who lose the game, but somebody who leave the game before running to the field.

The key is “challenge your self”, never create limits to you. Just keep trying to take all opportunities around you, whether the result is perfect or not is not the main problem because we just a human being, the most important is you know for exactly how high your limit after you try for jumping as high as you can do best, not only measure it on your mind with your own fear because it isn’t your real limit that’s your box. Proof that You are the frog on the pond not the frog in the 7cm box !

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, sometimes we create "the box". If you do create it, just jump harder and make the box open up so you will be able to jump as high as you can. The question is, if the one who make "the box" is other person, what should you do? Get rid them out of your life?

Bagus Arya Wirapati said...

Wow! SImilar thinking with my 'unlimited' concept! I had mentioned it in my private philosophy blog, though with different name..

I think that human beings have unlimited potential. They can grow even stronger unlimitedly. The one that limits their potential is themself! When you think that you can't, you will create your own limitation to improve yourself.

So, when you have a thinking that you are not able, you are actually live in your own borders. Be brave and break the walls that block your way.

A wall called 'Yourself'.

Sham said...

well.. in my opinion, it's important for us to know our "limits"... never takes something that you can not handle, bigger than yourself..

because there's no such thing as "unlimited".. we can't deny that we are only a human. and human of course has limits. the unlimited only belongs to our Creator.. God..

so.. chalange yourself is a very good way to improve us, but with some footnotes that we also know ourself, strenghs and weaknesses..

Dorothy Smith said...

Wow!! a great idea you had given to judge our limits.Since without practicing anything we can get a preferred output as much we like.So the best way is to put you through the testing phase and then to judge yourself.Thanks for the great idea on the eve of frog jumping day to know the jumping limits we have and how much more can we attain.

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