
On my way home from picking my daughter up at school, I noticed an interesting sight. I have seen it before and it always perplexed me. A smaller bird was chasing and attacking a big bird of prey in the air. Just a few days ago I saw a hawk in a mid air battle trying to catch a pigeon out of a flock of about 300+ pigeons. Yet today, here was one lone bird attacking and chasing a hawk.
I am not sure what caused the battle but as much as I like birds of prey, I always find it to be awesome when the small birds chase the big ones. Maybe it was a mother bird protecting her babies, or maybe it was just protecting itself. The cool thing was it was winning the battle. Maybe the little bird didn't know how little he was. Maybe it was pure stupidity that made it think it could win. Or maybe he knew that if he attacked then the big bird of prey would back down.
Do we sometimes lose battles because we think we are to small and too meager to win the fight so we just give up before it begins? On the TV show
The Office last week James Spader closed the special Halloween episode with this thought:
"Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny that we take a day each year to dress up in costume to celebrate fear."I guess what I am saying is, we should not be afraid to do what we want to do. We should not sell ourselves short. Chase those big dreams. I think the reason kids from rich families grow up to have good jobs and make lots of money isn't necessarily because they have a trust fund. I think it is because they see themselves as a big bird. They know that their family has succeeded and so can they. How do you see yourself?