The Argentine writer Jorge Damián once said: When I was a child, I loved the circus very much. At every opportunity I would go to see the fascinating shows, enjoy watching the acrobats walking flexibly on thin ropes, jumping into burning hoops, and climbing on each other's backs with feline flexibility. I especially liked the animals. They fascinated me in a special way. There were monkeys, dogs, a real tiger, a lion and an elephant. The elephant was a special favorite of mine, I was fascinated by it. There was something special about the elephant's flexibility and the complicated actions it was able to perform despite its enormous size. Then I noticed something interesting: during the intervals between shows, the elephant is tied up in one of the corners of the circus. A large iron chain is tied to a medium-sized wooden peg stuck in the ground. I was amazed. The elephant is big. Its strength is even greater. And what exactly is holding it there? I knew that a large elephant could uproot an entire tree on its roots, how come it didn't think of uprooting the small tree clipping to which it was attached and running away. What exactly kept it there?! At first they explained to me that it was just tamed. I bought the explanation. But when I grew up a little I asked myself, if he is tamed then why tie him up at all? Years passed and I didn't get an answer. I almost forgot the question until I met someone smart who explained the matter to me: The elephant doesn't run away for one reason. It's been tied to a wooden peg like this since it was born. It doesn't know anything else. Then I was able to imagine the little elephant. I saw it in my imagination, a moment after it was born, when it had just been tied with a large chain to the wooden peg. I imagined it pulling, moving back and forth, trying to break free, trying to tear the chain, to remove the wooden peg from its place. For long hours he fought the chain that restricted his movement, depriving him of freedom and freedom. He did everything he could to break free until he got tired. He tried the next day, too. The day after, too. Until he got used to it. He realized that there was no way, that he couldn't break free, that he had to stay chained there, forever. Since then, he hasn't tried again. He just gave in to the given situation.
Of course, the elephant doesn't exactly interest us. What interests us is us. Aren't we sometimes like this big elephant? Didn't we have desires, aspirations, desires that we wanted to fulfill, things that we wanted to achieve that we tried to achieve but didn't succeed, even though we tried? And then we gave up. We gave up, we lowered our heads and told ourselves that this is how we always stay. But they have already said 'unconscious despair', despair is outlawed. A person has to try always, again and again and again. It means that he is alive, it means that his will is pulsating. It means that he is capable. That he can go far.
