Once upon a time, there were a little chick and a small bird of which had just hatched from their eggs. The little chick was living in a beautiful farm with other animals and the farmer’s family which love him a lot. Even though he might look cheerful and happy on the outside and doesn’t seem like to be afraid of anything, but in reality he is not like what everyone else is expecting him to be. He looked around the farm and that’s when loneliness clouded over him. As he saw that all the animals are different from him.

One day, the small bird arrived in the farm with his family. As he was new and closest to the little chick in age, the little chick had the opportunity to show him around the farm. The little chick was very happy indeed because he founded someone who was like him. At least that was what he thought. Day by day, they began to grow. At first, the little chick hasn’t realized their differences and continued to have fun each day with the small bird and look forward to the next. But reality can’t be changed. Time passes and it’s the time for the little bird to learn to fly. The little chick watched as the small bird slowly and carefully spread out its beautiful wings which he has kept for all the time and began to fly. Higher and higher he flew, until he was nowhere in sight. The little chick looked up at the sky and he started to feel afraid. He was afraid that the bird would never come back. But after quite a few moment, the little bird flew back to the little chick side. The little bird’s face was glowing with happiness and started telling the little chick of the things he saw from up above and the friends he had made up there. The little bird promised to bring along the little chick the next day to meet those friends. The little chick tried his best to smile and feel happy for the small bird and not to spoil his mood instead. But worry never ceases to bother him.

When the little chick went home that night, he tried to do what he saw the small bird doing that morning. He too, spread out his wings slowly and tried to fly. He rose up above the ground a few feet and down he went again. The little chick was not satisfied and once more he tried with all his might, spread out his wings and pushed him own self upwards. But no matter how hard he tried, he always ended up felling to the ground. He felt really upset and went to bed that night wondering why the small bird can do it and he can’t.

The next morning, the small bird waited and looked around for the little chick at their usual meeting spot but he was nowhere to be seen. A friend of the small bird called him from up above. The small bird hesitated for a moment but still followed to fly up into the sky with his friends. The little chick saw all of these from behind a tree. Tears rolled down from his eyes all of a sudden as he feels loneliness slowly creeping to him once more. The little turned and took off looking for the farmer. The farmer saw the sadness in the little chick’s eyes the moment he went through the door. The little chick asked the farmer, why can’t he fly like his friend, the small bird? The farmer looked at the little chick with his gentle eyes, strokes his fur slowly with his fingertip and hugged him closely into his embrace. My dear little chick, he said, he is a bird while you are just a chick. Birds can fly while chicks can’t. That’s a fact that everyone including you has to accept. Tears rolled down his cheeks again as he realized he is different from the bird. But the worst thing is, he realized that he is going to be on his own, again.

The little chick went back to his room and shut all the doors tightly. He hated himself for not being able to fly like the small bird; hated himself for being different form the small bird; hated himself for being just a little chick. When the small bird returned that evening, the brought along the little chick’s favourite toy and went to see him. But the little chick refused to open his doors and let him in. And from then on, the little chick shut himself away. Away from the small bird’s world. The small bird couldn’t understand the little chick’s sudden weird behavior but he tried each and every day to reach the little chick. Until one day, the little chick’s door was finally opened. The little chick has finally understood that he and the small bird are destined to be different. And the small bird can fly while he can’t is an ugly fact which he has to accept. Once again he opened his doors to the small bird, but he has changed. He is not his usual self with the glow and happiness always on his face. Even just a smile on his face is sacred.