The Woe of Life: Big Dreams and Other To-Do's

Why do we beat ourselves up? We mortals who claim a higher consciousness than the animals that live here on earth with us yet, with all of our fancy talking and uber intelligence I’ve never encountered a fish who didn’t believe he could swim. Or the bird who successfully said, “Look, Mom, Dad, I’m not ready for such a grand leap of faith, so why don’t we wait another couple of years till I’m ready? I may fail. It’s a cat-eat-bird world out there and I just can’t risk it!” [...]