Give It A Second Thought

An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

All its life, the changeling eagle, thinking it was a prairie chicken, did what the prairie chickens did. It scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. It clucked and cackled. And it flew in a brief thrashing of wings and flurry of feathers no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that's how prairie chickens were supposed to fly.

Years passed. And the changeling eagle grew very old. One day, it saw a magnificent bird far above in the cloudless sky. Hanging with graceful majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

What a beautiful bird! said the changeling eagle to its neighbor. What is it?

That's an eagle - the chief of the birds, the neighbor clucked. But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him.

So the changeling eagle never gave it a second thought and it died thinking it was a prairie chicken.

Moral: Listen to your inner voice; Don't let the world come in between you and your dream. Dare To Be Different!