This is the story of an eagle.
The Eagle has the longest life-span of it's species. It can
live up to 70 years. But to reach this age, the eagle must make a hard
decision. In it's 40th year its long and flexible talons can no longer grab
prey which serves as food. Its long and sharp beak becomes bent. It's old-aged
and heavy wings, due to their thick feathers, stick to it's chest and make it
difficult to fly.
Then, the eagle is left with only two options:
(a) DIE
or;
(b)
go through a painful process of CHANGE which lasts 150 days.
The process requires that the eagle fly to a mountain top
and sit on it's nest. There the eagle
knocks it's beak against a rock until it plucks it out. Then the eagle will
wait for a new beak to grow back and then it will pluck out it's talons. When
it's new talons grow back, the eagle starts plucking it's old-aged feathers.
And after 5 months, the eagle takes its famous flight of
rebirth and lives for 30 more years. Why is change needed? Many times, in order
to survive we have to start a change process.
We sometimes need to get rid of old memories, habits and
other past traditions. Only freed from past burdens, can we take advantage of
the present.
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