Survive like an Eagle.

I have started to think about life like a Cardiac Monitor. When the line is moving up and down, it doesn’t matter how high it goes and how low it dips, it gives an assurance that you are alive. You are doing something that gives you a feeling of being alive. Perhaps, being alive comes with many predictable and unforeseen stages where life would smash your face on the floor in a blink. You would think, what the hell just happened, you would feel you have lost everything, money, job, family, friends, relationships even hope. You are all lonely in this world, self-pity would become your favourite time pass and would eventually get random ideas how to end the suffering. You don’t want to end your life instead want to end the suffering but you think ending life would end the suffering too. But, for what, just because something in life happened differently from your draft. If you think ending life is an option to solve the problem, then the fact is; it may sound like a solution but it never is. You let the circumstances win over you, forgetting that circumstances don’t last forever but your struggle does, which would add another feather to your legacy. There were certain stages in my life too, which weren’t planned. Painful in sort of  unimaginable ways, which can’t be defined. And, that’s how life functions, I mean life also has a right to have fun in it’s own way. So, when I ever hit a rock bottom, I tell myself that I have to survive like an Eagle. Here is the story.

Eagles usually live upto 30 years. At this age, they can’t fly because of the weight of feathers their body has, their beak is bent and isn’t strong enough to tear apart their prey, their talons are weak to catch a prey. Without beak and talons, they can’t survive. They know if they have to survive for about the same years then they have to go through a hardship of 150 days without food. Who likes to die? - No one. Now, all it matters is to survive. Eagle sits on top of the mountain, hitting its tapon and beak against the mountain continuously until it plucks out, imagine how would you feel if I pluck a fingernail out from one of your fingers, it would be painful as hell. Eagles do it for both of its legs and the beak, imagine how painful it is but the animal has the picture in mind that this pain is worth the survival and would be rewarded with the next 30 years of life. Once, the beaks and talons grow back, eagles pull out every feather from the body with a new beak and talon. Think, if I start pulling every hair on your body, how would you feel? There would be times when you want to give up and think dying would be easy then this pain. But, the eagle thinks, this needs to be done to survive, there is no other option. So, it keeps going one by one, day by day for 150 days. When the term ends, it has a new beak, new talons and new feathers, now it can take flight of survival and live upto next 30 years. 

No matter how bad the circumstances are, even if I am buried beneath the ground. I always tell an eagle story to myself and just say “I have to survive and I will, no matter at what cost, I will figure out a way, I look right in the eyes of circumstances and say - “I am going to make it”. In the process, I harvest courage, confidence, trust on self and almighty and a never to forget the lesson I learned. In my experience of human interaction, I have observed that we - humans always try to look for an easy way out from a hard situation, the term is escaping by getting external support. Instead of trying to solve the situation, to get through the tunnel, we escape it by giving our attention to something else and make the distraction so important part of our daily lives that we think that we have overcome the underlying situation. So, whenever the situation strikes back, we don’t know what to do on our own and we do the same - escape with help of others. If we would have worked on then we would know how to survive, we would become a better version of ourselves.