We spend a lot of time watching and listening to birds, but have you ever considered what life lessons we could learn from them? The lives of birds have long been idolised as free and unencumbered, and while we might not be able to sprout wings of our own, there is certainly much to learn from our feathered friends.
There is an ever-growing list of self-help books and pocket guides to mindfulness that can be very useful in this day and age, but perhaps we can start our journey towards a greater enjoyment of nature and life by spending a little time looking up at the skies rather than at our phones.
Here are a few life lessons that we can learn from birds…
1. Be Confident
Barnacle geese chicks, at just one day old, will throw themselves off their precarious nest site to the ground below. Their parents lay their eggs high up on rocky outcrops to avoid predation and the chicks therefore have to be brave and trust that they will survive the jump. This jump is potentially life threatening and yet the chicks do not flinch, they know what needs to be done and they are ready to be confident.
Or we could think of the Guillemots which nest along cliffs. These birds also nest on tiny cliff edges and their juveniles quickly become too large to stay at the nest site and so these semi-flightless birds throw themselves into the icy waters below with complete confidence and instinct.
Don’t let your nervousness be the reason you miss out on a leap of faith.
