The Flightless Bird

Just so the other day, a co-worker of mine showed me this video on YouTube. So this video, according to its maker, is a masters thesis animation which was completed when he/she was at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City. Anyway, this short video features a Kiwi, a flightless bird, nailing up trees to the side of a tall cliff for so many years where in the end, he gets the chance to create the illusion and or the feeling of flying but plummets to his death.

The nice thing about this video is the message behind it. As creatures of God, we have this attitude or mentality that when things seem to be out of reach or let me use the term IMPOSSIBLE, we just tend to fold up and give up. In this case, Mr. Kiwi, due to his aspirations to someday, fly just like all the other birds he sees around him, tried to find a way on how he would make this dream possible. Having to get trees and nailing it to the side of a cliff probably took him years and years, and yet he didn’t stop, he didn’t give up just to get to that once chance, to get that one feeling, the satisfaction, to fly. Mr. Kiwi just waited for the perfect moment, the perfect time in his life, to fly, for a brief period. And as the video shows, he knows, that he’ll end up dead in the end. If you guys, watched the video closely, just before the video ends, you’ll catch Mr. Kiwi shed a tear, for what? It’s probably for the feeling of happiness, the joy that finally, he was able to fly and he knows, that at the end of that short lived moment of flying, the end point of all things created will come, death…

Unlike the Kiwi, we people have the chance, the opportunity, to reach that seemingly impossible dream. If only we try, we push harder, and set in our minds that one day, we will reach it, it would definitely happen, no question. So no matter who we are, where we are, it doesn’t matter if we’re rich or poor, as long as we have the drive, the will, to make our dreams come true, we can reach that “elusive” dream.

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