It was a Monday morning when all
frogs gathered for a meeting. It was a traditional practice which was being
followed in their group, all frogs from different lakes had joined for this
meeting. Discussions were held in the meeting. As usually discussed every time,
even this time there was a topic on climbing the City Long Tower. Many frogs
eagerly spoke – “This is the highest tower in this city , none of us have ever
made it to the top. Years have passed by, Still we are not able to achieve this
goal. Every time we discuss on this and forget. If we think on achieving anything
special in our life, it is to climb this
tower. Once we climb to the top , we establish honour & respect to our
group. To achieve this , we have to set a date and start climbing.”. The young
and youth frogs supported this , based on which decision was taken to climb the
tower next Sunday Morning.
On Sunday morning all frogs
surrounded the tower, the young frogs started climbing the tower. Suddenly they heard voices from the ground of
old & aged frogs “No , do not climb too long , climbing this tower is not
possible , Till now not even one frog has climbed this. You will get hurt and
may lose your life if you fall down while climbing”. Hearing to this some frogs
stopped climbing and descended down. But still some frogs kept moving , the more
they climb , more was the voice , fear cheering, raised by the frogs on ground
to stop them – “You cannot make it , please come back , reaching the tower top
is impossible. It’s dangerous”. Hearing to this, slowly some frogs started
descending back to ground.
But , there was one small frog , which
kept moving with enthusiasm without listening to these. The frogs on the ground
seeing this small frog had thought, this small frog has decided to lose its life.
But Surprise!! the small frog finally made it to the tower top. It enjoyed the
city scenic beauty, the long beautiful view from the tower top , after satisfying its heart , started
descending back to ground. Once back, other frogs shouted & cheered praises
for this small frog for its achievement and honored it as “The first frog to
climb the Tower”. The news press frogs surrounded the small frog for interview –
“How was your experience when you climbed on top, what did you see there , how
was the surroundings there , who inspired you to do this ? & so on” . The
small frog just kept quiet with a gentle smile for these questions, because it could
not hear & was deaf from birth. When
it used to climb the top, it used to see other frogs on ground shouting, which
it thought they are encouraging & cheering for it to climb higher. It mistook
their actual lack of excitement to cheering spirit & had kept moving on.”
Sometimes even in our life we go
out with big dreams to achieve something, there will be a group of people on
our back who may induce fear and lack of enthusiastic excitement – they keep
boasting , No one has done till now , it is not possible to do this etc . So we
may decide to go back from our goal with the fear induced & brain storming.
So if we were also a deaf like this small frog, had we not listened to these boasting
, could we have reached our big goal ? question arises ….
Hope you enjoyed this short
inspiring story. Have a nice day .
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