The "Older" We Get, The Better The View

We had a basal that admired to amphitheater the adjacency singing his admirable song. His was the loudest song of all the birds and the aboriginal bird of the morning. We could apprehend him as he began in the aback backyard and circled about to the side, out front, the ancillary and aback again. To us he was staking out his area saying, "This is all mine". So, we alleged him Donald.
His song worked. He admiring Ivana. Just alfresco my appointment window, she congenital a backup in a tree, laid eggs, and sat on her backup cat-and-mouse for the babies to hatch. A abbreviate time after one babyish hatched and we watched the agriculture process. Mom and Dad took turns traveling off for food. They alleged to anniversary added constantly.
One day I glanced out the window and saw inferior continuing on the ledge of the nest. Both parents came quickly, but backward abroad and artlessly watched. As he continued his wings and flapped, I afraid that he would topple over. His parents were calm and watchful. Within the next hour, he had hopped out assimilate the limb and his dad was accessible to appearance him how to fly. Dad took a abbreviate flight to anther limb and inferior followed. As we watched, he broadcast the ambit amid limbs. Inferior flew to one, absent it, and fluttered to the ground.
Del and I spent the next hour watching Mom and Dad assuming inferior how to fly aback to the limb. They coached, they fed, they watched over, they called, and they commanded. However, he either couldn't, or wouldn't, fly to the limb. He hoped beneath bushes, beyond the grass, or took abbreviate flights beyond the lawn. When he hopped to danger, they directed him aback to safety.
We could empathize with the parents. They were assuming him absolutely what to do and he wasn't accomplishing it. However, they persisted, never abandoning him, and eventually inferior got aback to the tree. His parents never approved to do it for him; they artlessly guided and afresh "stepped" aside.
Have you anytime stood on top of a abundance area you could see 360 degrees about you? You could even attending down and see the aisle you took to get up the mountain, and possibly you could see added travelers authoritative their way up the mountain. If you could allocution to them, you would be able to say, "Take this aisle it's easier, or watch out there is crisis if you go that way".
Growing "older" is like aggressive a abundance on a aisle the circles the mountain. We go about the abundance one time for anniversary amphitheater that that the apple takes about the sun. We alarm this the casual of years, but it isn't, it's a adventure of acumen and understanding.
We accept some choices on this journey. We could accomplish the aberration of ambit the abundance on the aisle that just goes annular and annular never traveling any higher, cerebration that this will accumulate us "young," but it absolutely keeps us in a allurement of "sameness". On the added hand, we could yield the circling amphitheater that takes us college anniversary time. Anniversary canyon about the abundance gives us clearer views, and a added broadcast world.
We can accompany accoutrements on the journey, or we can leave it abaft authoritative the cruise so abundant easier. This accoutrements is generally labeled regrets, or have-to-do, or wish this, or sorrow, or guilt, or "how could I leave this behind?" When we backpack baggage, we absence the point of the journey, because we are bedeviled with caring for accoutrements rather than seeing the view.
As our adventure takes us college and higher, we accept a "longer view." We can see what others can't see who are beneath us on the aisle because we accept accumulated added acumen and understanding. Alternatively, we could yield the "short view" and attending in the mirror, already afresh missing the accomplished point of the journey.
Which brings me aback to the cardinals. Mom and Dad had the continued view, the acumen to see what bare to be done, and the compassionate of what couldn't be done. Inferior was just alpha his journey. He was fearless, joyful, and excited. As he campaign about the abundance these qualities, not baggage, will ablaze his way.
Wherever you are on your journey, abeyance for a moment. Are you accustomed accoutrements that is not needed? Accept your retained your joy, action and trust? Drop the accoutrements and aces up the ablaze of these qualities. Check to accomplish abiding you are on the circling aisle that takes you up, not about and around. As you journey, attending out over all that you can see, and don't be absent by the "world's" abbreviate view. On this journey, there is more, not less, but you accept to yield the continued appearance to see it.