There is a great story I would like to share with you. It is a story of an Arabian horse. As a young horse, he was orphaned. This Arabian foal was adopted by a family of camels. Every day he looked around and all he saw were the other camels, so he decided that he was going to be the best animal he could be—because he didn’t know he was an Arabian horse.
Daily, through the hot sands of the desert, he would carry heavy loads. He seemed to struggle more than the others, and struggle as hard as he could, he could not live up to being a great camel. He would drink every chance he could because he was so parched and thirsty. He was teased by the other camels. Every day he would put his hooves down into the sand and move slowly because that was the way a good camel was supposed to be.
One day, when he was very, very old, he looked out across the desert. From his weary eyes he saw an Arabian horse running in the distance on a sand dune. He said to himself, “That is the most beautiful animal I have ever seen in my life!” The shiny mane was flowing back from his head and neck. He said, “If I could only be like that.” He thought to himself,”Once, years ago I had the desire to run and jump high in the air and go over sand dunes…” but he quickly remembered his place as a camel.
He died from old age, never knowing what he really was.
The worst thing we can do in human life is to die without knowing who we are.
Many people do not fully realize or believe their full potential. It seems like our environment at home, or at work can hold us down.
It is sometimes harder to believe in ourselves when others do not believe in us.
However, University studies prove the reverse. Studies over 50 years, of people from the worst environments and neighbourhoods, where they were given little, or no chance of success proved that it was more the determination of the individual soul, and less to do with the environment that the soul was placed in.
Actually sometimes the adverse conditions generated such a desire within the souls that they were able to lift themselves out of the low place they found themselves in.
There is one thing that I know for sure:
You are more than you think you are.
You have more potential than you now believe.
You can accomplish more than you have ever been told by another human being.
