“Don’t drop the egg!!”

Yesterday while at the Jackson Zoo with my son, we watched as the zookeeper offered to let small children hold an ostrich egg. These amazing eggs are approximately 24 times the size of a chicken egg and weigh about 3 pounds. EVERY SINGLE PARENT SAID- “Don’t drop that egg.”  I have been guilty of this in the past. Beth tells me all the time that “he would have never thought of that if you had not said it.”

So, you can bet that every little child was thinking about this as they picked up this big egg. Were they marveling at the size, wondering how long it would take to hatch, imagining using that egg as a soccer ball?  No, I suspect that the thought foremost in their minds was – “If I drop this egg I’m in big trouble.” I think that this little exercise in fear “fear of dropping the egg” was utmost in their minds.

Fear masks our ability to see the positive.

If you’re focused on not dropping the egg you:

- won’t try to lose weight, you might not.

- won’t go to the gym. You might look silly.

-won’t change your eating habits. Someone might see you and say “Yeah, he/she needs to be on a diet.”

These are things that I thought at one time…. and I am trying to help everyone to understand that they were just fears…. They are not real. I was able to go to the gym, I was able to lose weight. I was able to watch what I was eating. And I didn’t look THAT silly. I always tell Beth that I am looking forward to embarrassing my children one day by looking like a big dork.

See, the thing is,  Ostrich eggs are extremely thick and hard to break. It would take a hammer to break them.  It is just that we are used to eggs being easy to break… so we let the fear control us. FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY!!


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