The Chicken Farmer and Peacock.

Once a long ago there lived a chicken farmer. He was proud of all his chickens and he took well care of them.

One day while he was out for a walk, chicken farmer happened see  an egg just lying in the middle of the footpath.

Without hesitation he decided to pick it up and take it back home to his farm. 

He promised himself he would try to hatch the little egg and care for another life.

After a few days the egg hatched and popped out a little baby peacock.

A little surprised our chicken farmer decided to raise and care for it just like one of his other chickens and so placed it with all the other chickens.

The peacock made friends quickly with the other chickens and enjoyed his life immensely, he was happy and content playing with his new friends. 

It had no idea that it was different and believed it was a chicken just like his friends.

The peacock spent its days merrily pecking around at the grain and worms with the chickens. 

He played with his new friends and enjoyed his life a lot. He really thought and believed he was a chicken and never considered himself any different than his chicken friends.

One day that was about to change....

It started its normal day until the rain began to fall, it became heavier and heavier forcing all the chickens and himself to take shelter in the barn. 

The ground became saturated and left many puddles all around the yard. As the sun began to shine once more our peacock and other chickens left the barn and started playing again. As the peacock went for a drink of water in one of those puddles left by the rain he saw his reflection for the first time.

Suddenly the peacock realized something startling. 

He could see he wasn’t like all the other chickens, the reflection staring back at him looked different. He saw for the first time he was actually a beautiful peacock.

“Oh my goodness” 

he said to himself “all this time I’ve been thinking I’m a chicken just like my friends”

“But I’m a beautiful peacock, and I can do what peacocks do”

And with that he unfurled his long tail feathers and made them into a fan of the most stunning coolers that reflected the suns rays.

The peacock now realized who he really was

Moral:

We are what we think we are

There is an illusion in life that makes our problems feel real. An illusion that can keep us prisoners within our own minds.

This illusion is believing the world happens from the Outside-in rather than from the inside-out. 

We believe that what we experience on the outside translates to what we believe on the inside. 

This is far from the truth.........