Animal Farm

I heard a story from my food science lab few weeks ago, when we were doing a lab on egg products. It is about story of a farm owner, who had many chickens. One day he decided to kill one of chickens, and then he picked the chicken that was laying very few eggs. He found a chicken, which was not laying egg everyday. When he killed the chicken and cut up its stomach, he found there was an egg about to come out. The eggshell was still very soft inside the chicken’s stomach. The owner was very upset, because there was a relationship had been established between the owner and chickens. The owner treated the chickens as his pets as he feeding them everyday. He thought he made a right decision at the beginning, until he saw the egg in the chicken’s stomach. All these times the chicken was trying to lay an egg for the owner, however it was getting old and unable to lay an egg everyday. I found it is a very sad simple story, but it did inspire me a lot. It showed the reality and how reality works. The story replays in my mind frequently, and keeps remind me about the truth of reality. I shared the story with my counselor; she asked which role am I playing among the chicken, the egg or the owner. I don’t want to play any role among all three characters, because none of them have a good ending. However I did add a few comments, sometimes we can be the owner, sometimes we can be the chicken and sometimes we can be the egg. I do understand that there are things we could not get away and we have to make the decision seems like to be right for us. Nevertheless what made us consider to be right or wrong, we never know until we get to the result. I was trying to keep myself positive, but there is gray area that I cannot stay away. The owner was picking the chicken by looking at its productivity, but he was regretted after he killed the chicken. It does make sense for everybody to eliminate the failures, and keep all the good ones. Once the decision is made and it is not reversible. There are many times that we couldn't take our words back, or the situation does not allow us to take it back. There are many people get layoff everyday and it happens to everywhere. Bosses have to make the decision for selecting the best employees in order to lower the production cost. Sometimes decision could not satisfy everyone, only a few people or maybe only one person is benefits from the result. In another words I would say we knew the decision may hurt someone, but on the other hand it benefits another. I don’t want to judge people or mistrust the other, but the reality does change my decision-making. I try not to be egocentric or being selfish, but the bottom line is I have to live with the reality. What I was doing was totally contradicting to what I used to believe. I never live in the fairy tale; there is nothing perfect in my life. I questioned myself did I ever try to please everyone, and I knew that I am not the number one or nothing I have complete at this time. I am not complaining things that happened in my life, because my experience shaped my personality. I learned from my failure and success and I am going to live with it.