An eagle was soaring high in the sky with his friend “I have decided that I want be like the fish and swim in the lake.” “You swim now” replied his friend "but only long enough to grab the fish.”
“You don’t understand, I want to live beneath the water all day." Said the first eagle. Suddenly he adjusted his wings and dove quickly into the lake.
A third eagle approached and said to the second eagle “Where is he going?” The second eagle replied “It is ok to strive to be better than you are, but you cannot escape the reality of who you are.”
We should all strive to be and do better in our lives, but do not allow ourselves to become delusional into believing that we can be someone who are not. When we are young, we should explore all the possibilities in life to discover WHAT we can become. To become WHAT we desire we have to remember WHO we are. We are determined, driven, adaptive, persistent, forgiving, loving. Do not allow a temporary circumstance to lead us to forge WHO we are.
Be stronger than the circumstance, stay true to your values and morals. Become all you can be, by celebrating all whom you truly are.
The moral of the story is to always strive to be a better version of you, but only a fool believes that you can change what you are. A mean person to a kind person is a change of WHO. A person to horse is a change of what.
There is no fault working hard to meet your full potential, but what good is it to reach your potential but still not know your purpose?