Why Walk When You Can Fly?

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. 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 over 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 his 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. We should learn to
destroy the branch of fear we cling to and free ourselves to the glory of
flight,
 
"Why walk when you can fly"