There once was a farmer who found an orphaned eagle chick and took it home to raise with his chickens. As the eagle grew, he took on the habits and personalities of the chickens who raised him. He would peck at the ground to eat seeds that the farmer fed the chickens, but the eagle would never fly. The eagle eventually grew into a majestic bird, but still never flew. The farmer thought it was odd that such a beautiful winged creature didn’t fly, so he called an eagle expert. The expert came and put the eagle on a fence post and said… “YOU ARE AN EAGLE! YOU ARE MAJESTIC! SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY!”. The eagle hopped off the fence post and went down to peck on the ground. The next day the expert took the eagle up on the roof and said, “YOU ARE AN EAGLE! YOU ARE MAJESTIC! SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY!”. The eagle once again hopped off the roof and went down to peck at the ground with the chickens. Becoming frustrated, the expert decided to get the eagle into his natural surroundings. He took the bird to a mountain top where other eagles would regularly fly. The expert placed him out on the edge of a cliff and said, “YOU ARE AN EAGLE! YOU ARE MAJESTIC! SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY!”. About that time, two other eagles flew by and began to chirp at the first eagle. The eagle then looked at his own wings, spread them, jumped off the cliff, and flew with the other eagles. The moral of the story is, you become like those you surround yourself with. If you want to fly like an Eagle, don’t surround yourself with chickens. Bad company corrupts good character.