The Eagle

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you could be more 

than what you are right now? That somehow, you know you 

were made for bigger and better things? Well, chances are, 

you're probably right... and don't you let anyone convince 

you otherwise. 

A man once found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a 

barnyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks 

and grew up with them. All his life, the eagle did what the 

barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He 

scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and 

cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet 

in the air. Years passed and the eagle grew very old. 

One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the 

cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty on powerful 

wind currents with scarcely a beat of its strong golden 

wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he 

asked. "That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his 

neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth - 

we're chickens." So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for 

that's what he thought he was. 

What a terrible waste... to have lived a life not doing 

the things you were always capable of doing and not soaring 

to the heights you were able to reach. And all because the 

people around you were constantly putting you down and 

feeding you with negative, uninspiring comments. So rise 

above these comments! Life is what you make it. Don't be 

afraid to spread your wings and fly. Aspire!