have you ever heard the parable of the kite?

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It is said that on one windy day in March a man watched a boy flying his kite. It seemed to the man, as he watched, that he could hear the kite speaking: "How wonderful it is to soar into the blue sky! It is thrilling beyond words. But if only that little boy would cut the string that is holding me back, I would soar higher than any kite has ever gone. What an annoying, vexing thing is that string!" "But , poor foolish kite," the man said in his mind, "don't you realize that if the string is cut you will crumple and fall to the ground? The thing that holds you back also holds you up!"