Life Lessons story (Gaur Gopal Das)

   There was a king who received a very special gift two beautiful, magnificent, peregrine falcons. He handed them over to a man who was expert in training falcons. After a couple of month, the trainer informed the king that one of the falcons was doing really well. Flying Majestically!  Soaring into heights of the sky! But the other one, it has not moved at all from its branch- from the very day that he had started training them. The king brought healers and sorcerers from all over the place to try and get the falcon to move but the bird just wouldn't fly. Having tried everything he could, the frustrated king said to his minister, maybe we need someone more familiar with nature. Someone, who understands animals and birds, I think only such a person can solve this problem. Go, look for someone like this from the countryside and assign this task to him. The next morning the king is thrilling to see the second falcon soaring high about the palace garden. Delighted, he called his minister and asks him to get the doer of this miracle to him. The minister brought a simple farmer to the king. The king asked the farmer. "How did you make this falcon fly?" The farmer replied, "It was very easy, your royal Highness, I simply cut the branch on which the bird was sitting." We are all created to fly, to live by the incredible potential that we have all been invested with. But after sit on our branches, clinging to the things, that are familiar to us. Remaining stuck in our comfort zone. Not willing to venture out. Not willing to take risks. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered. Because we continue to conform to the familiar to the comfortable, to the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre, instead of exciting, thrilling, and fulfilling. What is the branch that's holding you back from flying high? What is the fear that's stopping you from taking risk? What is the weakness that's inhibiting you growth? Unless we cut off the branches we are clinging to and free ourselves we can never take off and reach newer heights in our life. What are you waiting for? Cut the branch and take flight.