The Class and The Elephant

First allow me to begin with a story that i was told a few years ago. In a specific country in Asia (I don't quite remember which one) Elephants are given a special kind of training so that they will not stray from their masters when they are fully grown. You see, when they are young these elephants are taken from their parents and tied by their hind leg to an immoveable object (usually a tree) and left there until they break. For days they are let tied to this tree as they struggle to break free. Eventually they learn that they cannot break their bonds and submit. When their bodies strengthen as they grow older they remember their failed attempts at escaping and, though capable, they remain tied to the tree whenever their master places the rope around their hind leg. The bond that keeps them by the tree is not a physical one, it is the bonds around their mind that keeps them from roaming as they desire. in school i have noticed something similar, we students are forced to obey all school policy without hesitation, and follow a one-size-fits-all program that treats us as if we are all uniformly cut from the same cloth. Though we are all equal we are not the same people, our talents are different. Where I may fail you may prosper, and where you fail I may prosper. The one day a teacher (yes its Dr Preston) comes seemingly out of nowhere and tells us that we can break free, the line can be broken but we have to be the ones who break it. At first, before i entered the class i believed that the phrase "open your mind" was just a catch phrase teachers used to make you pay attention to their lectures. Then I was given the opportunity to do as I wanted, i was given the opportunity to write my stories as part of a group. When i saw this i jumped at the opportunity and i am still writing that book. The point is if you haven't done anything to break free of those bonds that tie you down yet then it's your own fault. I was once told that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. With that in mind ask yourself what will you do to break the bond that tie you? Now do it.