At 40 years old, the eagle faces a life-or-death choice.
Its talons have grown too long and curved — they can no longer grasp prey.
Its beak becomes too bent — it can’t tear food.
Its chest and wing feathers are too heavy — they make flight nearly impossible.
Now the eagle has only two options:
die… or endure a long, painful transformation.
It retreats to its mountaintop nest.
There, it begins the brutal process of rebirth.
It smashes its beak against a rock until it breaks off.
Then it waits. Slowly, painfully, a new beak grows.
With that beak, it pulls out its old talons — one by one.
And once those regrow, the eagle uses them to rip out the heavy feathers from its chest and wings.
150 days of struggle. Pain. Isolation. Silence.
But when the process is over — it soars again.
Reborn.
Stronger.
Free.
And it lives on… for another 30 years.
Sometimes, to truly live — we must change.
Change often comes with fear, discomfort, even heartbreak.
But clinging to what no longer serves us — old habits, toxic patterns, outdated beliefs — weighs us down.
Only when we release the burden of the past can we rise into the future.
The pain of transformation is real — but so is the power of rebirth
