Not Thinking is Still Talking

Our 3-and-a-half-year-old grandson, Emmett, to Gigi, my wife: “Gigi, when I’m not talking, my head is talking.”

Isn’t that the truth? When you’re not talking, your head is talking. The question is what are you saying to yourself?

Or what are you singing to yourself? Have you ever had a song in your mind and when you become aware of it, you say or think, “I don’t even listen to this music.” No, you don’t, but your brain did earlier today when you were getting gas at Sheetz.

It’s all going in.

Sheetz, friends, strangers, Netflix, media, everywhere, everything, everyone. Even the conversations in our head are reinforcing what we’re talking about, in our head. We are who and what we think we are.

Have you heard the well-known fable about the chicken farmer who found an eagle’s egg?

He put it with his chickens and soon the egg hatched.

The young eagle grew up with all the other chickens and whatever they did, the eagle did too. He thought he was a chicken, just like them.

Since the chickens could only fly for a short distance, the eagle also learned to fly a short distance.

He thought that was what he was supposed to do, so that was all that he thought he could do. As a consequence, that was all he was able to do.

One day the eagle saw a bird flying high above him. He was very impressed. “Who is that?” he asked the hens around him.

“That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” the hens told him. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth; we are just chickens.”

So, the eagle lived and died as a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

So again, what are we talking about in our head? And who’s driving your narrative and writing your script?

I believe we can all be Eagles if we choose to listen and learn from other Eagles and quit associating with Chickens.