Look UP for the Answer

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Look up for the answer!

If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open

at the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be an

absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight

from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run,

as is his habit, he will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a

prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.

The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble

creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed

on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly

and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from

which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like

a flash.

A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies

unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top,

but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the

bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely

destroys itself.

In many ways, there are lots of people like the buzzard, the bat and the

bee. They are struggling about with all their problems and frustrations,

not realizing that if they look up, they'll find the answer!

~ unknown