There’s a fable that has inspired me through my journey. It is the story
of a chicken farmer who found an eagle’s egg. He put it with his chickens and
soon the egg hatched.
The young eagle grew up with all the other and whatever they did, the
eagle did too. The eagle grew up living
like a chicken, and believing he was a chicken.
Since the chickens could only fly for a short distance, the eagle also learnt
to fly a short distance. He thought that was what he was supposed to do. So
that was all that he thought he could do.
As a consequence, that was all he was able to do.
One day the eagle saw a bird flying high above him. He was very
impressed.
The eagle looked up and wondered, “What kind of animal is that? How
graceful, powerful, and free it is.” Then he asked another chicken, “What is
that?” The chicken replied, “Oh, that is an eagle. But don’t worry yourself
about that. You will never be able to fly like that.” “That’s the eagle, the
king of the birds,” the hens told him. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the
earth; we are just chickens.”
And the eagle went back to scratching the ground. He continued to behave
like the chicken he thought he was. Finally, he died, never knowing the grand
life that could have been his. So the eagle lived and died as a chicken, for
that’s what he thought he was.
Are there any ways that you see yourself as a barnyard chicken and are
not aware of your potential grandeur? You could soar like an eagle. What would
that look like for you? Are you an Eagle or a Chicken?
I want to encourage you today that you are an eagle. You may have been
brought up in a situation that limited your understanding of your potential,
but it’s time now for the past to lose its hold on you. Don’t die thinking
you’re a chicken. Soar high, just as you were meant to.
It’s time for you to take that next step and fly!
Just BE YOURSELF!
With Love
Amalia Shakti
