The Man and the Eagle

An eagle was once captured by a man, who clipped his wings and placed him in the poultry yard alongside the chickens. The eagle felt deeply depressed by this sudden change in his circumstances.

"Why should you not rather rejoice?" the man asked. "You were merely an ordinary creature as an eagle, but as an old rooster, you are a fowl of incomparable distinction."

Despite the man's attempts to console him, the eagle could not shake the feeling of loss and confinement. The grandeur of his former life as a majestic bird of prey was irretrievably gone, replaced by a mundane existence among the chickens.