Do you sometimes get the feeling that you could be more than what
you are right now? That somehow, you know you were made for bigger and
better things? Well, chances are, you're probably right... and don't 
you let anyone convince you otherwise. 

A man once found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. 
The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his 
life, the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard
chicken. 

He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. 
And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet in the air. 
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent 
bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among 
powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. 
The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked. "That's the 
eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We 
belong to the earth -- we're chickens." 

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was. 
What a terrible waste... to have lived a life not doing the things you 
were always capable of doing, and not soaring to the heights that you were 
able to reach. And all because the people around you were constantly putting 
you down, and feeding you with negative, uninspiring comments. 
So rise above these comments! Life is what you make it, so don't be 
afraid to spread your wings and fly.