As you watch the adults take flight
You are filled with many emotions
As you measure the height they leap
You think to yourself
how nice it would be to fly
Now the time has come
to finally spread out your wings and take your first flight
You come closer to the edge of your nest
and as you look down you feel a rush of fear
your tiny heart starts beating out of your chest
am I going to make it?
you say to yourself
You take a step back
admiring the adults in the sky
admiring how they do this all day
You fear the fall
You doubt you can make it . You believe you'll fail
because you feel you're not enough
You're trapped by your fear of failure
forgetting that without failure there's no success
You question your life's existence
You notice that
The adults in the sky are all in different shapes and sizes
Yet they are soaring together in the same sky
You notice your peers
who you hatched with at the same moment
Soaring high in the sky
while you lie hopeless in your nest
scared and trapped by your fears
What am I doing with my life?
why am I like this?
What is wrong with me?
You ask yourself
And it hits you
what is done is done
You go back to the edge of your nest
You look down
You swallow hard with a pounding heart
You spread your wings You close your eyes
It's worth trying
you tell yourself
You finally take the leap
And as you fall
you feel the wind rush on your face
and all of a sudden it stops
You realize you are flying
You're not high in the sky
but you're flapping your wings
You finally did it
although you are not on the same level as the others
You still took the fall and leaped
How brave of me
My journey is not like that if the others
Although I'm not high up
I will eventually reach the sky
you say to yourself