Baby Eagle

A baby eagle lost his parents. He fell from his nest to the ground, but he could not fly yet. A man found the baby eagle and took him to a farmer. The man told the farmer, “This is a special chicken that will grow very big.”

The farmer looked at it and said, “It does not look like a chicken.”
The man said, “Yes, it is. You will be happy to have it.”

So the farmer kept the baby eagle with his chickens.

The baby eagle grew up with the chickens. He learned to act like them. He scratched the ground to find worms and ate like the chickens.

One day, an eagle flew high in the sky above the farm. The young eagle looked up and thought, “What a beautiful and powerful bird! It is so free.”

He asked a chicken, “What bird is that?”
The chicken said, “That is an eagle. But do not worry about it. Eagles fly and hunt. We are chickens. We stay on the ground and eat worms.”

The young eagle believed this. He went back to scratching the ground like the chickens. He lived his whole life thinking he was a chicken, and he never knew that he was really an eagle.

You and I are the eagle in this story. We have been conditioned by our environment and by the people who told us who we are supposed to be and what we are supposed to do.

We are not meant to live poor, unhappy lives and die without purpose. We are meant to grow, succeed, and reach our full potential.

Inside each of us is the ability to do something great. But if we don’t take action, that potential will stay hidden and never help others.

Time is very important. It can help us or hurt us.

If we start now and follow what we truly want in life, we use our time well. But if we wait too long, our motivation will fade, our energy will decrease, and we may run out of time to achieve our dreams.