A way of escape...

Do you know how elephants are trained? a young elephant is tied by the foot to a rope which is atatched to a stake in the ground. After it tries unsuccessfully to dislodge the stake, the elephant accepts that it must stay within the circumference inscribed by the rope to which it is tethered. The animal gives up its efforts to move out of this circle. As the elephant grows larger and stronger it becomes quite capable of uprooting the stake but because it has long since accepted that it is impossible to free itself, it doesn't even try to escape. The elephant is bound not by a physical object but by an illusion. It is limited not by an outside source but by a memory. How many of us are still bound by illusions? Trying to fight our way through barriers that only exist in our minds. Is there a way to escape this illusion? What have you accepted as "truth"? Are the walls you have built to protect yourself from being hurt and disappointed the same walls that have imprisoned you and kept you from experiencing the joy that life has to offer? The illusion of safety at the expense of being fully alive, blaming your past for the mediocre life that you live. We may not have had much control over some things that have happened in our lives ;however, we do have control over how we allow those things to affect us. Steppingstone or Stumbling block, A path to freedom or years of bondage- the choice is yours. Life is beautiful, a gift given to us by God, when I think of all of the time I've wasted waddling in pity and excuses I just want to fall to my knees asking for forgiveness for the things ive taken for granted and for the ignorance I've shown regarding the depth of life. I look forward to what life has to offer. I move on from this phase of life embracing everything that has contributed to the strong, beautiful, loving woman who has found a way of escape......