If You Had Only One Chance
How many opportunities are we given in life to do things
? Sometimes a lot, but if for everything, there's only ONE chance, once and for all?
Take a few moments to read this story about a little bird and imagine your life if you were this little bird.
Once an eagle that made its nest at the top of a tall bridge. There were 3 eggs in the nest and they all hatched to healthy chirping baby birds. Over time, one little hatchling became strong enough to attempt its first flight.
It stood out at the edge of its nest, flapped its wings and took a leap of faith... to learn how to fly.
With no luck for that poor little baby bird, it never had its glorious flight into the sky. Perhaps the wind was too windy on that day. Who knew the reason why it did not fly successfully.
It couldn't stop itself from spiraling downwards towards the fast approaching concrete road far below its nest. The little bird fell to the ground and was run over by a car.
With that, a life so full of promise is prematurely cut short...
Do you see how closely the story of the little bird resembles real life?
That little bird had only ONE chance to learn how to fly. Make or break, do or die. Can you imagine if you were given only one chance in life? That would be scary.
On the other hand, we are luckier as life always throws many opportunities our way. Sometimes we fail, but most of the time, we don't face dire consequences like death. A lot of people take the opportunities that they get for granted because the know that there will always be second chances.
What will you do if there are no second chances?
What if, you wouldn't know what's going to happen tomorrow?
What if this opportunity, at this moment of time, right now is all you've got?
Maybe its time we start to look at life through the eyes of that little bird and seize each opportunity that comes our way like it was our last one. It could be a business opportunity, the dream job of a lifetime, starting a new family or just simply to make a difference to somebody else's day.
How much of our inner strengths we can develop if we do everything like it was our only opportunity to do it?
Put it this way -- If you know that you're NOT ALLOWED to fail in your next goal or seizing the opportunity given, do you think that your result will be different?
Give it a deep thought because this might change your mindset forever.
Don't take life for granted.
Copyright (c) 2010 Patric Chan
by: Patric Chan
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