A frog was caught in a deep rut. In spite of the help of his friends, he couldn’t get out. They finally left him there in despair. The next day, one of his friends saw him hopping about outside the rut as chipper as could be. “What are you doing here?” the friend asked. “I thought you couldn’t get out?”
“I couldn’t,” the frog replied, “but a big truck came down the road and I had to get out.”
Some of us are living beneath our capabilities. Because we cannot do great things, we are inclined not to do anything.
–Author unknown
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Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.
Tags: doing nothing, living beneath our capabilities, living in a rut
