The Flea And Our Journey on Railroad Tracks!

It has been an interesting past few weeks. We have had a lot of great things that have happened. I will start with a few facts about a flea and then tie that into a personal story.
Flea's can jump very high for their height/size. There has been an experiment done that shows that fleas, if caught in a glass jar and the lid put on it the flea adjusts its jump to the height of the lid on the jar. The experiment went on and they took the lid off the jar. The flea kept jumping only as high as the jar's mouth but not any higher. Even though the lid was off the jar the flea only jumped that high, he never increased his jump again.
This story is about a previous companion and I who were walking down some railroad tracks. My bike was broken and we did not have the car for the week. We were walking for miles in this beautiful land of trees, fields of freshly sprouted grass with deep green color, the sound of running rivers, animals of all sorts, and the beautiful Carolina baby blue sky. As we were walking the many miles to our destination we did different things to keep us entertained. At one point they ran and tried to stay only on the wooden ties of the railroad. This pulled our eyes off the things that lie ahead in the trail. We ran for a while until I got tired then we began to walk so I could catch my breath. The bored-ism began to creep in we got so bored that we counted kernels of corn that had fallen out of a train sometime before. This also kept us from seeing the beauties ahead. As we continued we kept doing things to try to entertain ourselves, which made us look down at the ground, and took our eyes off the beautiful trail.

We eventually made it to our destination,  and worked there for a while and our journey home was a lot less eventful because we got picked up and given a ride home.
How do these two stories have anything to do with each other? Well they both tell about our potential and our living up to it. We too are sometimes like a flea when things get placed over us we adjust to the height of it, and then we stay at that level until the thing is removed. The question then becomes are we going to now jump higher or stay at the same level? We often feel the things holding us down, maybe our jobs are giving us stress that hold us back from enjoying the time we can spend with our family. When the "lid" of work is removed by us getting home, are we going to try and jump higher by maybe playing with the kids or doing something for the wife. For the children when we get home from school do we try to spend time helping our parents, and siblings. In my experience of walking down railroad tracks,  I too often looked down not enjoying the things placed around me, at one point in the journey my companion and I jokingly said: "If a heard of elephants crossed in front of us we would probably have missed them!" At that point I realized that I was only jumping to the height of the lid that we placed upon ourselves. From then on out I tried to look more at the beautiful things around me and less on the kernels of corn at my feet (I counted 36 pieces of corn by the way,) and I started looking at the river running by and the field with blades of green grass growing in the field. We saw beautiful birds and animals. The journey became less boring and more exciting because The "lid" was taken off and I was able to enjoy the full blessings of gods creations.
 I Believe that if we can take the "lid off more we will be happier because it will change out outlook and we will see a better more beautiful pathway. There are a couple questions we could all ask ourselves, What are we missing? What can I do today to jump higher? I feel these questions will help us to "stay above the fray" and be a little more happy. When asking these questions there are two key things to remember: 1) Involve God. Pray to him and ask his will, 2) Do what you feel you should do.
Two video's to go with this:
 This one is a link click it to watch(Your Potential, Your Privileges)