Imagine what this world would be like if everyone had the opportunity to be encouraged to be a unique human being that we potentially are able to become. Unfortunately, “our life teachers” are usually more interested in teaching and moulding us to become replicas of them, to an extent that we are able to “parrot” them. In this way, the teacher feels that he has succeeded and we are brainwashed to believing that we have “arrived”!
I would like to share the following story of “The animal school” with you, in order to shed some light on the importance of uniqueness.
“A rabbit, bird, fish, squirrel, duck, and so on, all decided to start a school. Everybody sat down to write a curriculum. The rabbit insisted that running had to be in the curriculum. The bird insisted that flying be in the curriculum. The fish insisted that swimming be in the curriculum. The squirrel insisted perpendicular tree climbing be in the curriculum. All the other animals wanted their specialty to be in the curriculum too, so they put everything in and then made the glorious mistake of insisting that all the animals take all of the courses.
The rabbit was magnificent in running; nobody could run like the rabbit. But the curriculum committee insisted that it was good intellectual and emotional discipline to teach the rabbit flying. So they insisted that the rabbit learn to fly, as they put him on this branch and said, “Fly, rabbit!” The poor thing jumped off, broke a leg and fractured his skull. He became brain damaged and then could not run very well, either. So instead of an A in running, he got a C in running. And he got a D in flying because he was trying. And so the curriculum committee was happy.
The same lesson of teaching was applied with the bird- he could fly like a freak all over the place, do loops and loops, and he was making an A, but they insisted that he should burrow holes in the ground like a mole. Of course he broke his wings and his beak and everything else and then he could not fly. But they were perfectly happy to give him a C in flying, and so on.
At the end of the graduation the Valedictorian was presented to a retarded eel, because he could do almost everything fairly well.
The wise owl dropped out and now votes “no” on all tax elections that have to do with schools!”
Is it not ridiculous, that you may be a genius, or one of the greatest writers in the world, but that you cannot get into a university unless you pass trigonometry? For what?!? You can’t get your Senior School Matriculation certificate without passing this and that! Look at a list of dropouts: William Faulkner, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Edison, to mention a few. They couldn’t face the traditional school of learning!
How long does it take the student to realize that what the teacher is really saying is “To pass, I want you to reproduce what I am and do”?
R.D.Laing says, “We are satisfied when we’ve made people like ourselves out of our children: frustrated, sick, blind, deaf, but with high I.Q’s”
As individuals we must not be satisfied with just becoming like everyone else. We must fight the system and become unique as we walk in love and truth. Don’t be afraid, but rather embrace your uniqueness and become satisfied with becoming yourself.
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A Dream
28 March 2010
It’s vital for everyone to have “a Dream”… or two. To have a dream, gives one’s action, direction.
So begin by defining what it is that you really want, and what you want to get out of achieving your dream. Then make sure to form a clear image in your mind of that particular dream that you want to achieve. Believe it to be real by playing the part as if your dream has already materialized!
Remember that setbacks are really “set-ups for a come-back”, therefore do not become disheartened but rather let your mind remember, that everything that happens is there to teach you and help you grow into your dream.
It takes 17 yes’s (I can) to neutralize a single “I can’t.
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