A FLY IN A BOX AND AN EAGLE IN THE SKY

whizpen ♦ June 27, 2010 ♦ Leave a comment

Trap a fly in an inch glass box and watch as it tries desperately to escape buzzing hard against the sides of the glass box. Then watch as it, clearly exhausted, settles itself down and remains still. Most probably lamenting the fate that had befallen on it .Then after some time has passed, take away that glass box and you would find that the fly wouldn’t move an inch. No, its not dead. But it would in time most often shrivel up and die right in that same place quite oblivious that now, for him, the whole sky has just opened up.

An Eagles egg was once placed in a nest of chicken eggs. The eggs hatched and the little eaglet, quite unaware who it really was, grew up with the chickens leading the life of a typical chicken. Time went past and the eagle, now old, was scraping the hard ground searching for worms when he happened to look up and gasped at the sight that met him. A majestic bird like what he had never seen before was soaring high in the sky, its long wings spread wide against the blue sky. Awestruck, he turned towards his chicken brother inquired as to what that beautiful bird was. “Oh that, that’s an eagle and it’s the king of birds. We are mere chickens and that’s what we will always be. So don’t waste your time gaping at the sky. we’ve got worms to catch”. With a deep sigh the old eagle turned its head towards the ground and began to scratch it again.

How many of us do think are living or have already lived a good part of our lives like this fly and the eagle? Is it many of us or is it just a few of us? If its just a few then how is it that only a few turn out to be high achievers and not the rest?? What about the rest of the so called under achievers and the dunces?? What stops them from being the best or even that eagle from being an eagle and that fly from trying just once more?? Was he not born as an eagle and even if it was after some time did the sky not open up for the fly???

Let the past remain the past. Its about time we started to realize who we really are and its about time we start reaching for the sky and mind you, what you’ve been told about the sky being the limit is just not true. Theres still the space and the stars and the planets out there for you to reach. And when you do that don’t forget your religion, your family, your friends and each and every rung in the ladder of your life. For mind you, if you do that, in time, you would be lost somewhere out in that wide space.

And if you are in the bottom of your class, then its about time you left that place to someone else. There was once a time when I used to be among the first few positions in class-right from the bottom i.e. Then few years later I was back again among the first few positions. But this time around it was from the top. I’m not sure what got me started, but maybe somewhere along the line I must have realized that I had in me much more than what I was being right then. And once I started, well, lets say there was no looking back. And being on top of not just the class, but the whole batch in nearly all the subjects was just sooooo cool for me, a one time dunce. And to all my fellow dunces let me tell you, none of you were born a dunce, so don’t you just try to be one.