“ YOU ARE AN EAGLE FLY !!! ”
(Exhortation Dreams/Thoughts...)
By- Mr. Lal Guite ( THANGKHANLAL), New Delhi.

Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today… There is a beautiful anecdote (beautiful story) which i would like to share with all of you these days. A farmer entered his barn one day and found a strange looking bird among his brood of Chickens. As the little bird grew up, he realized that it was a baby eagle which must have tumbled down from its nest and found comforts with the mother hen. The eagle grew in size and stature, but behaved just like its brother Chickens. The farmer would have none of this.

He took the little eagle and threw it into the air and shouted, “You Are An Eagle Fly”. The eagle just fell heavily on the ground. The farmer tried this every day, but it was of no use. The eagle just chickened out when it was thrown open and continued its existence with its adopted family.

One day, the farmer took the eagle high on to a mountain top and then from a tall cliff and threw the bird into the valley below shouting, “ You Are An Eagle Fly ”. The farmer watched with horror as the frightened eagle plummeted down to the earth below. Suddenly, the eagle felt the winds rushing to its wings and then pushed out its feathers and its huge Wings spread out. The farmer watched with joy as the eagle who thought it was Chicken, soared into the blue endless sky.

This story reminds me of how many of us do not realized, we too can achieve great heights like the eagle. But, then, most of us forget our prowess (the Blessed instincts that we have) and remain Chickens stuck to the ground. Unlike the elegant and majestic eagle which soars high up in the air effortless yet keeping an eye on the ground below with its sharp eyes. Most of us instead of soaring high up in the air, hop around crawling on the ground looking for left-overs and crumbs, or stuck to the ground looking for others to take their steps and hop from one tree top to another. Most of us are doing that, like it or not. What a waste of our precious God-given life on Earth.

If we look back to the time we were born, we can feel how happy our parents must be. The joys, the laughter and the hope that one day we would fly high up in the air. Then what happened? Dreams crashed and despair set in. The eagle crash-landed before taking off. The problems with us is that we forget we are equipped to soar high like the eagle. We have been blessed with Wings of Determination, guts, innate/instincts and persistence. It is just that we failed to recognize that we possess it. We have not tested ourselves against the winds to realize that the very storms that pull the other birds down can lift us up. The biggest problem is that we do not believe that we are eagles (that can fly high).

nstead, what we do? We forget our powerful wings and instead walk around with crows and sparrows, hens, ducks etc. etc., complaining how life has been cruel and unkind. Every time, a strong gust of wind blow, we tumble down and squawk as we roll over. We also hardly realize that the troubles and problems that blows us:- Are The Very Winds that will Lift us up.

So, next time, ask yourself :- Am i a Chicken or An Eagle??? YOU ARE AN EAGLE…FLY !...