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So once a father and a son went to a kite flying festival, the young son became very happy,

seeing the sky filled with colorful kites.

The son asked his father to get him a kite and some string with a roller so that he could fly a kite too.

So the father went to the shop at the park where the festival was being held and purchased a kite with a roller for his son.

His son started to fly his kite. Soon, his kite reached high up into the sky.

After a while, the son said, father, it seems that the string is holding back the kite from flying even higher.

If we cut the string, it will be free to fly even higher. Can we cut the string, Dad? The son begged. So the father did as his son asked and

cut the string from the roller. The kite started to go a little higher. That made the son very happy.

But then slowly, the kite started to come down. And soon it came crashing down on a terrace of a building way off into the distance.

The young son was surprised to see this.

He had cut the kite loose from its string so that it could fly higher, but instead it fell

down.

He asked his father, father, I thought that after cutting off the string, the kite could be free to fly higher,

but why did it come crashing down? The father explained, son, when we are flying high,

often the things that we think are trying to hold us down to prevent us from going further

are the very things that are helping us fly stable.

When the wind slows down and when the wind picks up, those things at the end of the string

help the kite stay high and go in the proper direction.

When we cut the string, we lose that support.

When we cut the string, we fall down without the support of what was being provided

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