2. One day a young eagle fell off the nest and was
picked up by a farmer. The farmer was kind enough to
bring the small bird to his barnyard so that it doesn’t
perish.

3. The young eagle found a good home with the chicken
and grew up believing he is a chicken.

4. He waited for the farmer to bring food, he quacked
when a chicken laid an egg, and he enjoyed running
around and sitting in a hole in the ground on sunny
day

5. Life was good and comfortable, and the eagle’s wildest
adventure was to run under the fence with his friends to
that cliff where they looked at the mountains and
wondered what lied on their other side

6. One day he was with his fellow chicken picking seeds
off the ground when a shadow covered the sky above
him. He lifted his gaze and was mesmerized by the
sight of a beautiful eagle soaring in the sky.

7. Unlike other chicken that he saw trying to fly, this eagle
didn’t seem to be making much effort. With his wings
spread wide, he was flying smoothly and changing his
direction with the slightest gesture

8. “Wow. Look at that!” yelled the young eagle to his
friends. “Who is that?” he asked. “That’s an eagle”,
replied a chicken. “He’s the king of the sky. But we
belong here on earth. We are chicken.”

9. She continued. And the eagle staring at the bird
disappearing in the horizon as if it was gliding on an
invisible path that only he could see.

10. Days later, the old eagle was flying again over the
barnyard and was stunned by the sight of an eagle
running around with the chicken. He surged down to
the ground. As the other birds saw him they ran
back to hide in the house. He descended in front of
the other eagle before he reached the door

11. “What are you doing?”, asked the old eagle.
“What do you mean?”, answered the young one.
“What are you doing running around with chicken?”.
“I am a chicken. These are my brothers and sisters. I
grew up with them.”
“No you’re not. You’re an eagle. You belong in the sky,
not on the ground.”
“No I am not. I am one of them. All I know is to do as they
do, and to eat what they eat. I can’t even fly.”

12. “You can’t because you never tried. But you’re an
eagle, just like me”.
“Even if what you say is true, I’ve lived all my life as
a chicken. I am not an eagle anymore”.”
“It’s the heart of an eagle that matters, not the way
he lived or ate… Come with me”
The eagle took another look at his friends hiding in
the comfort of home. “Don’t listen to him!”, yelled
one of the chicken. “He is tricking you”,” said
another. “If you go with him, you will die!”. “Come
back and be with us”…

13. But deep inside the eagle’s heart, a faint voice told him
what he needed to do. He took one more gaze at the
barnyard where he spend all his life playing with his
friends, then turned around and followed the older
eagle.
A moment later, the arrived at the cliff he used to visit
sometimes with his friends. They stood next to each
other on the edge looking at the mountains in the
distance. Without a second of hesitation, the old eagle
jumped off the edge, spread his wings and soared
upward

14. The young eagle looked down the cliff and trembled.
He’d never flown before. May be he would die. May be
he should go back.
“Don’t look down.” the old eagle said “Look up at the
sky. Aim toward the sun. Give it a bit of faith.”
The young eagle lifted his sight up, spread his wings
and leaped…

15. Back at the barnyard, the chicken heard a
triumphant cry that ascended to heaven. Their
feather trembled and they looked at each other
without exchanging a word. They know they will
miss their brother a lot. They know he might visit
some day and tell them how it felt to fly. And they
will gather around to hear his stories about the
lands he visited. But for the time being, they
would keep doing what they did best: living as
chicken.