You've no doubt heard the story about "The Birds and the Bees."
But have I told you about "The Chickens and the Bees?" Well, then you need to read this.
You see, the chicken was standing on her perch, and she was very proud, indeed! Every time someone walked by, she would say, "I am a chicken, I can fly like a bird! See my feathers?" Then, she would throw her chest out and stand quite erect.
The funny thing about the chicken was that nobody had ever actually seen her fly. Yet, if you asked her if she could fly, she would say, "...why yes, of course! Take a look at my wings! Would God have not given me wings and feathers if I could not fly? Oh, look at my body! So Aerodynamic! Of course I can fly, silly one!"
Well, one day along came a tiny little bumble bee. She walked right up to the chicken, and said "I can fly too!" The chicken laughed! "Hahahah! You couldn't possibly fly! Your body is all round, and you are too small. Besides, you call those wings? Those tiny little things, so small? How could they even move that big bulbous body of yours? You don't have wings and feathers like me!"
The bumble bee would listen to none of this, however. "Oh yeah," she said, "I don't care about all that, I know I can fly, and if you don't believe me, I challenge you to a race right now, down the street." At first the chicken played cool, and pretended to be all sure of herself. "Sure, fine, I will win too." But a few minutes later, the chicken said "Um, but can we do this another day?"
"No," said the bee, "right now!" The chicken had its bluff called, and realized this. "Ok, fine!" So, on the count of "3" they both jumped off the perch. Well, the bee buzzed up, flapped it's wings as hard as it could, and sure enough rose right up and buzzed away. The chicken, however, she wasn't so lucky! She dropped right to the ground, like a weight. It turns out that even though the chicken was designed to fly, it had neither the knowledge nor the ability! That's why bees can fly, and chickens can not. The bee doesn't care that it's not supposed to fly, it does it anyway.
The moral of the story? Sometimes, appearances are nothing. Even when it seems completely impossible for something to happen, it pays to shut out reality and do it anyway. Believing is more important than anything anyone says.
