Zisel`, 27 мая 2018 г., 5:40
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Baby giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson very early in life from its mother. A lesson that all of us would do well to remember. The birth of a baby giraffe is literally an earth-shaking event. The baby falls from its mother’s womb, some eight feet above the ground. It shrivels up and lies still, too weak to move. The mother giraffe lovingly lowers its neck to kiss the baby giraffe and then something incredible happens. It lifts one long leg and kicks the baby giraffe, sending it flying up in the air and tumbling down on the ground. As the baby lies curled up, the mother kicks the baby again and again, Until the baby giraffe still trembling and tired, pushes its limbs and for the first time learns to stand on its feet. Happy to see the baby standing on its own feet, the mother giraffe comes over and gives it yet another kick. The baby giraffe falls one more time, but now, quickly recovers and stands up. Mama Giraffe is delighted. It knows that its baby has learned an important lesson: no matter how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on your feet. Why does the mother giraffe do this? It knows that lions and leopards love giraffe meat. So unless the baby giraffe quickly learns to stand and run with the pack, it has no chance of survival. It also knows that the lessons we learn early on become part of our habit, our instinct, and stand us in good stead all through our lives. Most of us, though, are not quite as lucky as baby giraffes. No one teaches us to stand up every time we fall. When we fail, when we are down, we just give up. No one kicks us out of our comfort zone to remind us that to survive and succeed, we need to learn to get back on our feet. And often, we live such protected, cocooned; low-risk lives in our early years that we are not quite prepared for the big, bad world when we enter it. If you study the lives of successful people, you will see a recurring pattern. Are they always successful in all they do? No. Did they achieve success in the blink of an eye? No again. You will find that the common streak running through their lives is their ability to stand up when they fall. The ability that the baby giraffe acquires. The road to success is never an easy one. There are several obstacles, and you are bound to fall sooner or later. You will hit a roadblock, you will taste failure. But success lies in being able to get up every time you fall. That is a critical life skill that all successful people have internalized. Learning to win in life is quite like learning to ride a bicycle. When you start to ride, you might fall and get bruised. It doesn’t matter. You need to get up and continue to ride. Fall one more time? Get back up again. That’s all it takes. Learn to get up every time you fall. So the next time you find a supervisor or a parent kicking you, don’t get upset with them. Like the mother giraffe, they may only be trying to teach you one of life’s most important lessons. It doesn't matter how many times you fall. What matters is your ability to stand tall on your own feet. - Humirah
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