What if we knew who we actually are?

What if we actually knew who we are and what is our real purpose in this life? What if we knew who we actually are and what were we born as? 

Life would have been very easy and nice if we had known about our true selves rather than just following what others are doing and choosing something similar for ourselves too. We spend most of our life thinking and trying to be like a person who we never were meant to be and never even wanted to be like. The societal pressure and the race to run after each other have left almost all of us in a position where we never even wanted to land, in life. 

There’s a small story that relates well to the topic. Please follow: 

Once upon a time, a farmer found an abandoned eagle’s nest and in it, there was an egg still warm. Looking out, there was no sign of its mother or its siblings. So, the farmer decided to take back to his farm, the warm eagle egg, fearing for the little eagle’s life. He laid the eagle’s egg in the nest of one of his hens. After two weeks the egg hatched and a little baby eagle came out. The hens looked at the baby eagle as if it were a little chicken. And so the eagle grew up along with the other chickens. It pecked around the farmyard scrabbling for grain; it ran into the chicken house when it started to rain. It did exactly what the other chickens did all his life. It spent its whole life within the yard and barely looked up in the sky only because the other chickens never looked up. After it had a very long and comfortable life in the chicken yard, it was very old. And one day, it decided to lift up his head and saw above a wonderful sight. He saw an eagle soaring high above in the sky. Looking at it, the old eagle sighed and said to itself, “Only if I had been born as an eagle, I too would have been able to fly high in the sky and touch the limits on my own.” 

This story narrates how we try to copy others and try to create a life for ourselves just as others are doing and not how we want it for ourselves. We overlook our capabilities and try to run in the rat race. We have only one life. We should never let anyone else tell us what we can do and what we can’t. All of us are born as an eagle but decide to live as a chicken because all the others did the same. But what we forget is that we were born as an eagle and had capabilities that were quite different from those who were born as chickens. We forget that all the strength and might which we need to fulfill all our dreams in life. The decision to never look up in the sky and live like a chicken is all ours and with the passage of time, it can be the reason for our regret. And one day when we realize what we actually are then it might be too late. 

So, going after your dreams, finding and focusing on personal capabilities and strength in life rather than just trying and doing what others are doing, is very important. There’s just one life and it must be spent in the belief that we can achieve anything we want, in life. There is no wit in running in the rat race and trying to be like others. But to understand and realize who we actually are and what we were born as, is the dire need of the hour.