The Egg in the Nest- A Moral for Change

 

The only thing certain in the world, and in this life, is CHANGE. No matter what people think or what they will try to believe, everything is changing all of the time, as we breathe in and out, as we eat and sleep and grow and go through our lives, change is happening all around us. Some changes are big while others are very minuscule, but change is happening no matter what.

 

This is a text version of a moral story of change I modified and illustrated for my daughter.  

 

There it is, and it just sits there in its nest of straw.

 

It doesn't DO anything.

 

It doesn't change shape, it doesn't change color, it doesn't move, it doesn't roll around; you could look at it for DAYS AND DAYS and you'd come away thinking that it was just that and that was that. (Trust me, because that is what I have done).

 

And yet, if one were to extend one's feelers in a different way, one might become aware of the riot of change that is taking place inside, a storm of re-organization, feeding and growth, of total transformation (change) as a bunch of random cells become a fish-like thingy, which in turn becomes ever more defined and more complex, more organized in every way, more mature, more fantastic with every heartbeat, every instance that passes.

 

One day, and we know not when, that egg that lay so motionless for so very long and seemed to be nothing will begin to rock, and then it will crack, first a beak, then a claw and the newly born dragonet will emerge, spread its wings for the first time and take its first small steps.

 

Yes, there was change. No matter how big or how small, change happens and from the smallest, unseen changes often comes the most beautiful results. Expect change to happen and look forward to the results…Even when you don’t see them.

 

I enjoy writing for children, but this is by no means a story only for children. If you are starting your own business, trying to grow an existing business or even trying to accomplish something not even related to business, often times you look and look and see nothing for your efforts, but I am here to tell you that just because you do not see those changes, doesn’t mean that there aren’t changes going on.

 

Don’t give up, expect change and change will happen “…Even when you don’t see them.”