We chain ourselves and then call the other the captor.
We’re like the baby circus elephants that are tied with strong ropes and are not able to get away. That lose the belief that they’re indeed able to get away by the time that they are actually able to.
Our childhood and the authority figures are that strong rope when we are young and weaker.
When we grow stronger and capable we don’t realize that the ‘chains’ that bind us are actually strings, and we could tear them with ease, right now. Free ourselves at this very moment.
Not only that, the strings are in our mind, they don’t exist in the real world.
No matter how much you argue and fight against this statement and want to blame someone else for why you can’t do something, the fact remains that it is all in your mind.
I’m aware that there are exceptions, but they are rare, and even including this remark will lead many to believe they are the exception.
But whatever. Even if I didn’t say it, those same people would still fight against it. That is how much we’ve been conditioned. This proves what I’m saying. We think we’re incapable. I mean look at the rope that chains us, it’s RIGHT THERE.
The type of person that argues this is close to impossible to help. Most of them must come to the realization by themself.
You can’t be talked out of how your extreme poverty doesn’t hold you down, that is something you have to know and believe for yourself.
Or be taught to you by someone you trust oh-so-much.