Once there lived a little Cuckoo happily with its family. Each and every day, they sing together & rejoice. However, all the other Cuckoos kept telling the little Cuckoo that it has to improve itself this way or that way & so the Cuckoo never felt confident or happy about what it did, yet loved all its family members & tired its best to cope up to their expectations.
One day as they were migrating from one forest to another, the little Cuckoo lost its way & happened to settle down in an intermediate forest. This forest had several other species of birds except the Cuckoo Species. The Cuckoo saw that all the birds were talented in one way or the other. The peacocks dance, the ducks swims, the woodpeckers pecks the wood, the crane’s elegancy, the pigeon’s beauty & so on seeing them, it felt all the more inferior about itself as it did not seem to find any prominent talent or anything beautiful in itself. He knows to sing, but never felt confident about it because, his family members always found fault with the way he was singing. The cuckoo tried to mingle with the other birds, yet felt inferior about itself. All the other birds also started to treat him differently because of the attitude the cuckoo had about himself.
One fine day, the cuckoo was walking alone & was singing a sad melody as he was very disappointed. There came the pigeon (symbol of peace & love) and stunned at the performance of the cuckoo asked the cuckoo why it was very sad. The cuckoo was in the heights of inferiority complex and never wanted to open up. Then the pigeon held its feather around the cuckoo and gave it all the strength by telling that the melody he heard just now was the best and has never heard any other bird sing so sweet like this. The Pigeon then asked the cuckoo to explore & find out the good it has in itself eliminating the criticism of the people who commented on him. The pigeon further told that “Each of us is a master piece. Success in life is all about how much one knows about oneself & also to what extent one can make use of it to help/lift up others and more importantly to sustain all the good he knows about himself in the various situations of life in spite of the storms that crosses by”.
The cuckoo started to explore about itself and began to list out the various talents it had compared to all other birds. It then started teaching the other birds how to sing and also learnt from other birds to swim, dance and many other things. The life turned out to be very satisfied & happy as the cuckoo now knew about itself, his talents and used those talents to uplift the spirits of other birds around it. It was all because of the friendship & love of the pigeon. Day by day their friendship grew deeper & deeper.
One fine day, the cuckoo thought about its family & how much they would be missing it. So it told the pigeon that it has to have back to its family. The pigeon understood & accepted and bid farewell to the cuckoo. However the duck wanted to accompany the cuckoo wherever the cuckoo went because it just loved his company. The cuckoo and the duck then started searching forest by forest. Each forest gave him various experiences with regards to other birds & several situations it had to handle. In all the challenges, the cuckoo tried its best to only remember what the pigeon told it. ”Each of us is a master piece. Success in life is all about how much one knows about oneself & also to what extent one can make use of it to help/lift up others and more importantly to sustain all the good he knows about himself in the various situations of life in spite of the storms that crosses by”. And from each forest there were some handful of birds who started accompanying Cuckoo too.
One fine day, the cuckoo found back its family. After having faced so many difficulties & all the more having emphasized about itself in each of these, now that he felt all the more confident to live in its family along with the other birds that followed him. All its family members were so surprised to see how unique & wonderful the cuckoo had evolved itself to become. The cuckoo lived very happily thereafter.
Our happiness lies in us. No matter how many ever people / situations come in our life, when you start learning from the other people and situations and all the more important, start strengthening on your goodness and talents, ultimately it is only one entity “Me” which will remain with you and that entity “Me” would be serving as an inspiration and model for all the rest of the people around you. The success rate of your life depends on how well you nurture that “Me” in you & also the extent to which you can transfer that positive element of “Me” in you to people around you. One fine day, you will find a clone of so many “Me” around you and you will call it your family. This was what so many great people like Rama, Jesus Christ, Swami Vivekananda, Gandhiji, Mother Teresa etc had tried to do. They exactly knew about themselves and nurtured the “Me” in them & by their way if living had transformed so many others around them with that factor of “Me” in them.
One day as they were migrating from one forest to another, the little Cuckoo lost its way & happened to settle down in an intermediate forest. This forest had several other species of birds except the Cuckoo Species. The Cuckoo saw that all the birds were talented in one way or the other. The peacocks dance, the ducks swims, the woodpeckers pecks the wood, the crane’s elegancy, the pigeon’s beauty & so on seeing them, it felt all the more inferior about itself as it did not seem to find any prominent talent or anything beautiful in itself. He knows to sing, but never felt confident about it because, his family members always found fault with the way he was singing. The cuckoo tried to mingle with the other birds, yet felt inferior about itself. All the other birds also started to treat him differently because of the attitude the cuckoo had about himself.
One fine day, the cuckoo was walking alone & was singing a sad melody as he was very disappointed. There came the pigeon (symbol of peace & love) and stunned at the performance of the cuckoo asked the cuckoo why it was very sad. The cuckoo was in the heights of inferiority complex and never wanted to open up. Then the pigeon held its feather around the cuckoo and gave it all the strength by telling that the melody he heard just now was the best and has never heard any other bird sing so sweet like this. The Pigeon then asked the cuckoo to explore & find out the good it has in itself eliminating the criticism of the people who commented on him. The pigeon further told that “Each of us is a master piece. Success in life is all about how much one knows about oneself & also to what extent one can make use of it to help/lift up others and more importantly to sustain all the good he knows about himself in the various situations of life in spite of the storms that crosses by”.
The cuckoo started to explore about itself and began to list out the various talents it had compared to all other birds. It then started teaching the other birds how to sing and also learnt from other birds to swim, dance and many other things. The life turned out to be very satisfied & happy as the cuckoo now knew about itself, his talents and used those talents to uplift the spirits of other birds around it. It was all because of the friendship & love of the pigeon. Day by day their friendship grew deeper & deeper.
One fine day, the cuckoo thought about its family & how much they would be missing it. So it told the pigeon that it has to have back to its family. The pigeon understood & accepted and bid farewell to the cuckoo. However the duck wanted to accompany the cuckoo wherever the cuckoo went because it just loved his company. The cuckoo and the duck then started searching forest by forest. Each forest gave him various experiences with regards to other birds & several situations it had to handle. In all the challenges, the cuckoo tried its best to only remember what the pigeon told it. ”Each of us is a master piece. Success in life is all about how much one knows about oneself & also to what extent one can make use of it to help/lift up others and more importantly to sustain all the good he knows about himself in the various situations of life in spite of the storms that crosses by”. And from each forest there were some handful of birds who started accompanying Cuckoo too.
One fine day, the cuckoo found back its family. After having faced so many difficulties & all the more having emphasized about itself in each of these, now that he felt all the more confident to live in its family along with the other birds that followed him. All its family members were so surprised to see how unique & wonderful the cuckoo had evolved itself to become. The cuckoo lived very happily thereafter.
Our happiness lies in us. No matter how many ever people / situations come in our life, when you start learning from the other people and situations and all the more important, start strengthening on your goodness and talents, ultimately it is only one entity “Me” which will remain with you and that entity “Me” would be serving as an inspiration and model for all the rest of the people around you. The success rate of your life depends on how well you nurture that “Me” in you & also the extent to which you can transfer that positive element of “Me” in you to people around you. One fine day, you will find a clone of so many “Me” around you and you will call it your family. This was what so many great people like Rama, Jesus Christ, Swami Vivekananda, Gandhiji, Mother Teresa etc had tried to do. They exactly knew about themselves and nurtured the “Me” in them & by their way if living had transformed so many others around them with that factor of “Me” in them.
