Chicken or Eagle - A Short Story !

Last Sunday while cleaning my closet, I found a book, ‘Collection of short stories’ revised and edited, collected from anonymous sources. My father must have bought this for me, when I was a child, and I never got time to read even a single story. This story book had a disclaimer on the first page that read: ‘Read at your own risk, you may change forever’. Well the first story goes like this…

Eagle and Chicken

Year 2040 - In the backyard of Kentucky Friend Chicken (KFC), Bangalore branch there was a mango tree. This mango tree had an eagle nest. One day the wind was blowing hard, and an eaglet fell from the nest on to the ground. Luckily the eaglet fell on the dry grass (got away with minor injuries), which was placed by the KFC kitchen staff for the pullets to feed on. The hen saw the injured eaglet, and decided to nurture the eaglet along with the other pullets. After a few weeks the eaglet regained strength, and was able to walk. The favorite time pass of the eaglet and other pullets was to play hide-and-seek, and eat baby corn 3/4 times a day. After a few months the eaglet matured into a full-fledged gorgeous eagle and looked different from others pullets. The pullets were also mature, and could feel that the eagle looked different.

Over a period of time the eagle was sick of eating corn, and one day pounced on a rat running in the backyard. The hens started shouting, “Leave the rat alone”, and the eagle had no choice but to let the rat go. The hens scolded the eagle, and told the eagle that hens didn’t eat rats. One day, while playing hide-and-seek the eagle was hiding on the roof, and while coming down managed a decent glide. The eagle started to show off his gliding skills to the other hens, and eventually the mother got fed up and told him, “Stop doing that, Chickens don’t fly”. The eagle believed this and got on with his daily routine of playing and eating corn. One day a female eagle spotted this gorgeous eagle sitting on the KFC roof top, and decided to entice him to fly with her. The eagle rejected the offer, and said, “I can’t fly, I am a chicken”. The female eagle was angry and left.  

After few weeks the female eagle saw the same eagle playing with the chickens in the barn and was shocked. The female eagle killed a rat and bought that for the eagle to eat. The female eagle convinced the eagle that it was ‘Ok’ to eat rat, and that it was very tasty. The eagle ate the rat, and thanked the female eagle. After that day, both eagles started spending time on the roof top. A few weeks passed, and female eagle said that it was time for the male eagle to fly and come with her, but the eagle was not convinced, and didn’t fly. The eagle went to the roof top everyday and waited for the female eagle. One day from the roof he spotted her, and waived at her, she shouted, “Come, fly with me”. The eagle took a leap of faith, and fluttered his wings, and soared into the sky. He glided, soared, dived, and flew with the female eagle. The eagle flew higher and higher and reached the zenith, and could see the magnificent world from greater heights.

MORAL: Do you spend time with ‘Chickens’ or do you spend time with ‘Eagles’?

Narrator of this adapted story is Vikram Dhar, a Life Coach. He can be contacted at www.nlpcoach.in

If you do not...

A Wonderful Thought!!!

If you do not GO after what you want, 

You'll NEVER have it.

If you do not ASK,

The answer will always be NO.

If you do not step FORWARD,

You will ALWAYS be in the same place.

- Image obtained from internet, no copyright violations intended.

Lessons from Ganesh !!!

A lesson from the life of lord Ganesh,

Lord Ganesh

"If your father is very powerful person,

You would always be worshiped first."

Note:  This is just an humorous & sarcastic thought. I have no intention to hurt any individual's religious feelings.  To provide personal clarification, I am very deep believer of Lord Ganesh and belong to the family that worshiped for decades, sacred Lord Ganesh in one of the famous Hindu Temple.

Happy Engineer's Day!!!

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Wishing all my engineer friends 

Happy Engineer's Day!!!  

for all those who doesn't know what is Engineer's Day and why it's celebrated, here is quick bite:

 

 

 

 

Sir M Visvesvarayya

September 15 is celebrated every year in India as Engineer's Day to commemorate the birthday of the legendary engineer Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962).

Internationally recognized for his genius in harnessing water resources, he was responsible for successful design and construction of several river dams, bridges and implementing irrigation and drinking water schemes all over India.

He served as the dewan of Mysore State and was considered to be the architect of the all-round development of Karnataka.

Among his most successful projects are the design and construction of the K.R. Sagar dam and its adjoining Brindavan Gardens, turn-around of the Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works, setting up of the Mysore Sandalwood Oil Factory and the founding of the Bank of Mysore.

Picture Credit - Know More about Sir M Visvesvarayya

Wisdom of Day!!!

Moving On - Love is not end of the World

- photo obtained from a facebook share... no copyright violations intended.

One more day without you...

One more day without you!!!

Wonderful thought... can't resist to share it... 

Image obtained from facebook... no copyrights violations intended.

Falling Leaves - A Wonderful Poem

I was thinking of old friends today
and how many of them have slipped away.

Moved, got married, or stopped calling so much,
Found new friends, got busy, and just lost touch.

It reminded me of falling leaves.

Falling Leaves

Every autumn the leaves fall from the trees.
Some stay longer than others, but eventually -

Each leaf must fall, I'm told,
leaving the tree alone to face the cold.

Why is it that in the time of utmost need 

the leaves would seek to leave the tree?

And when we need our friends around
we look and they cannot be found?

Of course these friendships come and go
and in the spring new leaves will grow.

But I prefer autumn friends of old
with crackling laughter and colors bold.

And then I thought of you.

That one stubborn leaf that won't let go,
That clings despite the winds that blow.
 

Fighting ice, and snow, and winter's stings,
Hanging on right through till spring.

So I guess that's what you are to me -
The very last leaf to leave the tree.

I know it seems silly, but it's true. 

When I see that last leaf...I think of you.

- wonderful poem, a forward message by school time buddy, Gaurav Buddhadev

Fact about numbers & A.B.C.D.

A B C D & Counting

Some Interesting Facts about Alphabets and Numbers...

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English counting...

(- a forward email from Dikesh Patel.. thanks for enlightenment)