Alice

A visitor was passing by the elephants area but he suddenly stopped. He found it was difficult to understand that such a large animal was only tied with a thin rope to its front legs, without chains or cages at all. Of course, these elephants can break this rope whenever they want. But for some reason they didn’t.
“Why are these animals just standing there without trying to get out?” He asked the mahout nearby
“Understandably” said the mahout, “when they were baby elephants, we used ropes to tie them up. As they grow up, they still think they can’t break the rope. These elephants still thought the rope was strong enough to tie them, so they never tried to break for freedom.”
The visitor was very surprised. It turns out that these elephants can easily break the ropes at any time. However, they think they can’t, they just keep staying still.
Like these elephants, how many of us waste many opportunities in life for just a simple reason that we think we can’t do something because of failing last time.
It is important that we never stop trying because failure is the mother of success.