A grasshopper has long been cooped up in a box. One day he managed to get out of the box that locked him. With joy he jumped to enjoy his freedom. On the trip, he meet with another grasshopper. But he was amazed why the grasshopper could jump higher and farther from him.
With curiosity he approached the grasshopper, and asked, "Why can you jump higher and farther, even though we are not much different from age or body shape?".
The grasshopper answered him with a question, "Where have you been living all this time?" Because all the grasshoppers that live in the wild can do what I do ”.
At that time the grasshopper realized that all this time the box had made its jump not as far and as high as other grasshoppers that live in the wild.
Reflection:
Sometimes we as humans, without realizing it, have also experienced the same thing with grasshoppers. Bad environment, insults, past trauma, successive failures, the words of friends or the opinions of neighbors, as if we are trapped in a pseudo box that limits all our strengths. More often than not we absolutely believe whatever they sentence to us without ever thinking, are you really that bad? Even worse, we would rather trust them than trust ourselves. Haven't you ever questioned your conscience that you could "jump higher and farther" if you were going to get rid of the "box"? Don't you want to break free so that you can achieve something that you have considered beyond your limits? Luckily as humans we are equipped with God the ability to struggle, not just give up on what we experience. Because it's friends, keep trying to achieve whatever you want to achieve. It hurts, it's tired, but when you get to the top, all the sacrifices will definitely pay off.