Dream above the clouds.

Few days back, I got a text message from one of my friends, which goes like-" When it rains, most of the birds head for shelter. The eagle is the only bird that, in order to avoid the rain, starts flying above the cloud."   An eagle learns to fly the hard way. The Mother Eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings. Sometimes when a young eaglet is fearful of taking its first flight away from the nest, its forced out of its nest. The Mother Eagle flies high in the sky and from there, drops the younger one. But before the panicked eaglet reaches the ground, the mother comes and positions itself so that the eaglet lands itself safe on the mother's body.  In our lives as well, when obstacles come our way, for a moment, we tend to forget our dreams and the passion that towards our goals.In the whisk of a second, our dream becomes insignificant as we have an obstacle to face before we reach our destination. Its only human to do that.  The moment we stop looking at the barriers and aim high, we are already a step closer to fulfill that wish which we have been dreaming about for a while. That's what Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 speaks of; 


Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark 
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;


Your love for your goals should never find its alteration. It shouldn't be removed nor should it be shaken.