Are you aware of the importance of every single choice you make? Are you aware how far any tiny decision that you make may take you? It’s an interesting thought, you know, that every decision that we make colors our attitudes, and our attitudes color the next decision we make and so it’s sort of a spiral.

Negative or Positive — Your Choice

If you make negative decisions, they induce a negative frame of mind, and that makes it easier to make negative decisions. If you make a positive decision, that engenders a positive state of mind, and it’s easier to make positive decisions.

Every choice has a natural result leading to further choices of a similar nature.

Luther Burbank, the plant wizard, once told a marvelous fable about a young skylark that impresses the importance of the choices we make. This young skylark was out flying one day with his father and heard his father tell stories about what fine birds skylarks are. He heard that they can fly higher and sing more sweetly than any other bird and the father went on impressing upon his son the fact that to be a skylark was to come from a very fine family, to have a worthy lineage and to live a lofty and beautiful life.

But all the time he was listening, the little skylark had one ear to the ground, because he could see far below a man walking along a roadway pushing a handcart and on this handcart was a tiny silver bell that was tinkling very clearly, and so overcome with curiosity, the little skylark suddenly dived towards the earth like a plummet, just as skylarks always have done; they soar upwards in graceful, sweeping spirals, singing as they mount, and then they descend. They drop straight downward, and that’s a lot like man who can climb upward only with great effort, but can plunge down very rapidly from step to step.

And so it was the little skylark flying around with his papa, hearing about his wondrous lineage – he heard also the tinkling bell on the handcart and dived down towards the ground, and he heard the man saying. “Earthworms for trade for skylark feathers, earthworms for trade for skylark feathers!”

It seemed a strange thing the little man was shouting, but the little skylark thought earthworms a great delicacy so he asked, “How many worms do you give for a feather?” The man replied, “Two worms for a single feather.” So the skylark plucked a feather from his tail, made a trade and ate his two worms with great relish. Then he spiraled upward again to join his father, hoping that his father wouldn’t notice the absence of a feather from his plumage and father skylark didn’t notice. But day after day the young bird did the same thing, exchanging feathers for earthworms, until one morning, he discovered, when he lifted his wings, he couldn’t fly.

So many of his feathers were missing that his wings could no longer bear his weight up into the air. So, for long months, while his feathers were growing out again, the little skylark had ample time to repent his foolish bargain of earthworms for skylark feathers and to regret the choice he had made.

So it is with us, as we make our daily choices. We either trade good experience for even better ones, or we trade earthworms for skylark feathers. Every decision you make leads you onward and upward or downward and downward, every single choice.

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