Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent
falcons from Arabia. 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 head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your
highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting."
Moral :-
We are all made to
fly - to realize our incredible potential as human beings. But instead of doing
that, we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us.
The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. We
conform to the familiar, the comfortable, the mundane. So for the most part,
our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling. So let us
learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory
of flight.
