It’s not hard to get stuck in a limiting routine. We get so used to the way we do all the things we lose, over time, our ability to try new possibilities. The routine is so comfortable, so safe and we get used to it. so fast that we even forgot. However, the story of the kitten is one of those that function as an alarm clock. An awakening to what we do not see in our daily lives, but which affects us much more than we imagine.
Through this story we will discover the true meaning of this kitten, what its benefits are and how much we can become dependent on everything it gives us, but above all, it will help us discover who is the kitten of our life.
“Routine is another way to die. ” ? Anonymous?
The story of the kitten tells the story of a sage walking through the countryside with his disciple, one day they found a humble wooden house, inhabited by a couple and their three children, all were poorly dressed, in dirty and broken clothes. . His feet were barefoot and the environment was extremely much poverty.
The sage asked his father how they had managed to survive, as there was no industry or trade there and no wealth anywhere. The father answered calmly: “We have a cow that supplies us with several litres of milk every day. Day. We sell something and with money we buy other things we need. The rest we use for our own consumption. So, did we survive?.
The teacher thanked him for the information, said goodbye, and left. When they left the house, he said to the disciple, “Come back, take the kitten and throw it off the cliff. “
The young man was shocked, for the cow was the only means of subsistence in this humble family, but he thought his master would have his reasons and, with great regret, took the kitten over the cliff and pushed him. etched in your mind for many years.
After a while, the disciple, guilty of what he had done, decided to leave the teacher, return to that place and apologize to this family to which he had caused so much harm, and as he approached he noticed that everything had changed: there it was a beautiful house surrounded by trees where many children played, in addition to a parked car.
The young man felt sad and desperate because he thought this humble family had sold everything to survive, when he asked for it, they told him: it is us, we are still there, he entered the house and asked his father what had happened and he, with a broad smile, replied:
“We had a cow that gave us milk and with which we survived. But one day, the cat fell off a cliff and died. At that moment, we were forced to do something else, to develop other skills that we never imagined. From this way, we began to prosper and our lives changed?
Perhaps, like the disciple, we were horrified by the teacher’s decision to throw the cow off the cliff, yet this story is a metaphor for what we have to do with the things with which we feel very comfortable in our lives and with which, in the end at the same time, they are part of a limiting routine.
When this poor family found therself without a means of life to survive, she had no choice but to look for alternatives, but instead of discovering more poverty, they found a way to thrive, something they had never imagined, if the kitten had never disappeared from home. lives, they would continue to live in poverty, without believing that they could go further.
Many people are grateful for the difficult times of their lives that, although painful, have taken them out of their ‘comfort zone’, where they stagnate. The human being seeks safety, comfort, anything that does not put them in danger, but when we lost all that, we discovered skills and qualities that we had never imagined, that they were sleeping.
The story of the kitten leads us to discover our limiting routine. It may be a job we don’t like, but whose end-of-month salary reassures us; Is it the satisfaction of saving to travel, even if the trip is unlikely?
It is an excellent story that allows us to reflect on how we live, especially if we live complaining about what our existence is, we do not have to wait for a teacher to enter and act as a kitten that limits us to a cliff We can, from today, look beyond our comfort and become aware of the potential we have. We are not limited: we ourselves put obstacles in our life.
Each of us has a kitten in his life. What’s yours?