Let's fly and soar high...

Ready to fly?

It's often happened in our life that when we come face to face with adversity, we find ourselves weak and looking for all types of support. Many a time, we end up loosing the battle. Then we retire to brood and worry. At such times we never miss a single chance to point out how tough our life is.  We all come to this world as soldiers.  Every single one is here to fight something. But the problem is we are so mesmerized by the unreal that we do not recognize our real enemy.  Often we mistake the adversities to be our enemy when in reality our own attitude to the adversity is the true enemy. We hold tight to our enemy that keeps us from soaring high, all the while fighting the adversity which was, in the first place there, to lift us higher. What a pity! Here is a story, I would like to share at this point...read on...

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained.

Months passed, and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived.

The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch.

Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, “May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem.” So he cried out to his court, “Go and get a farmer.”

In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, “Bring me the doer of this miracle.” The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, “How did you make the falcon fly?”

With his head bowed, the farmer said to the king, “It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting.”

We r all like the falcons...Most times we sit on our comfort branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless out there, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered because of many reasons. We hold tight to the familiar, the comfortable, and the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are dull instead of being exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. 

When we refuse to give Life the best, Life will make us all fly... by cutting the branches of comfort... pushing us to extremes only to help us realize our incredible potential .  So let us try to learn and attempt to destroy the branches of comfort... that we strongly cling to and free ourselves to the glory of life . .. Let's soar high!