The Deer
In a remote forest, a pregnant deer was about to give birth to a baby. It found a remote grass field near by a river and slowly went there thinking it would be safe. As she moved slowly, she got labor pain…. at the same moment, dark clouds gathered around that area and lightning started a forest fire. Turning left she saw a hunter who was aiming an arrow from a distance. As she tried to move towards right, she spotted a hungry lion approaching towards her.
What should the pregnant deer do ….as she is already under labor pain ?
What do you think will happen ?
Will the deer survive ?
Will it give birth to a calf ?
Will the calf survive ? or
Will everything be burnt by the forest fire ?
At that particular moment ?
Could the deer go left ? – Hunter’s arrow was pointing
Could she go right ? – Hungry male lion approaching
Could she move up ? – Forest fire
Could she move down ? – Fierce river
In reality, she does nothing. She just focuses on giving birth to a new LIFE.
The sequence of events that happens at that fraction of a second (moment) are as follows:
In a spur of MOMENT …a lightning struck and blinded the eyes of the Hunter. At that MOMENT, he released the arrow missing and zipping past the deer. At that MOMENT the arrow hit and injured the lion badly. At that MOMENT, it started to rain heavily and puts out the forest fire. At that next MOMENT, the deer gave birth to a healthy calf.
Wisdom: In our life, it’s our MOMENT of CHOICE and we all have to deal with such negative thoughts from all sides always. Some thoughts are so powerful they overpower us and make us clueless. Let us not decide anything in a hurry. Let’s think of ourselves as the pregnant deer with the ultimate happy ending. Anything can happen in a MOMENT in this life. If you are religious, superstitious, atheist, agnostic… or whatever… you can attribute this MOMENT as sublime, divine intervention, faith, sudden luck, chance (serendipity), coincidence… or a simple ‘don’t know’. We all feel the same. But, whatever one may call it, I would see the priority of the deer in that given moment was to give birth to a baby…. because
