Where did all the swans in your heart go?

Reading the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling” with my child, I learned that swans can fly and are migratory birds that can fly halfway across the world.

“So, how come swans can’t fly nowadays? ” my child asked me, and I ran to the library and borrowed a book – “The Way to Raise Swans” – to know the truth.

The aristocrats in the Middle Ages in Europe, because they liked the posture of swans and thought that swans were the aristocracy among birds, wanted to keep swans in their estates to show off their wealth and taste. So, after they caught the swan, they used three methods to make the swan unable to fly. One is to cut off one side of the feathers of the swan’s wings, so that the swan lost its balance and could not fly. The second is to tie the wings of the swan, so that it can not open the wings and can not take off. Third, because the swans need a large lake to take off the start, if you reduce the size of the pond, the swans lose the starting line, it can not fly.

The first two methods are too cruel, and will hurt the beautiful posture of the swans, so it is common to use the third method, over time, the swans will lose the ability to take off, and even forget that they can also fly.

Once, I traveled to Switzerland, in the lake of Lusanne, saw a large group of swans, swam to the wooden bridge to beg for food from tourists, so that my heart is full of emotion, these swans begging for food at the lake, can know their ancestors used to fly freely? The old book says: “How can a bird know the will of the swan? ” meaning: “like swallows sparrows such small birds, how can understand the swan flight of ambition? “This sentence became a kind of irony, because swallows and sparrows still fly in the sky, but swans become birds that can’t fly because of human’s selfishness.

I have always been convinced that there is also a swan in the heart of man, which can let thoughts and creativity fly without boundaries. Many people are bound by desires, or have their ambition to fly cut off in life, or because the lake where they take off is too small, over time, they lose their ability to think and create, and also lose their freedom and heart to aspire to the sky.

Having the freedom of thought and boundless creativity is the gift of one’s spirituality, whether sage or mortal. Unfortunately, many people are pushed by lust and lose the clarity of their spiritual platform.