The Child

There was once a child...a toddling little baby..one day the child achieved a new phase of his life..he learned to walk...he was overjoyed...and his friends and family shared in his happiness...he enjoyed his new skill and honed it everyday...enjoying himself immensely...until he falls down and hurts himself...his parents stare at him...encouraging him to get up and try again..although shaken, he finds the strength in depth to pick himself off the ground and resume walking...he takes a first step, he takes the second...and just when he begins to regain his confidence...while he is still on wobbly legs, someone comes and pushes him from behind...the child falls to the floor once again, only this time, he is hurt much worse...his confidence takes another rude shake...he fears the worst is yet to come...his parents continue to encourage him, to tell him its okay to fall down...however, he cannot find it in himself to restore his confidence..he sits on the floor...afraid to get up, content to go back to crawling....none can blame him, for while he was still on wobbly feet, barely able to put the first fall behind him, he falls again, and the consequences are much harsher...what is the child to do?ever since his birth he has been told that true champions fall, but they pick themselves up and push on, despite the odds and circumstances...does he have it in him to be a true champion?