The Buzzard, The Bat, and the Bumblebee
If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eightfeet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, inspite of his ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins aflight from the ground with a run of ten or twelvefeet. Without space to run, as is his habit, he willnot even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisonerfor life in a small jail with no top.
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, aremarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take offfrom a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slightelevation from which it can throw itself into the air.Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
A Bumblebee if dropped into an open tumbler will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It neversees the means of escape at the top, but persists intrying to find some way out through the sides near thebottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until itcompletely destroys itself.
In many ways, there are lots of people like thebuzzard, the bat and the bee. They are strugglingabout with all their problems and frustrations, notrealizing that the answer is right there above them.
