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Todays question comes from either Berthie or Lassie. Don't us who is whom?
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One of them writes.......
Dear Aurora,
Berthie, or Lassie here, my human mom gets us mixed up all the time. Let's simplify it and just call me one of the Queens, I like that better personally myself. Look what I laid this morning. I added extra bloom on it and it is pink in your honor. I informed my mom she needed to photograph it, she claims it looks brown still in photo's even though it is pink in person. She cannot do anything right and now it appears us hens need to learn to take the pictures as well.
What is the point of doing the extra work so I stand out from the flock if your human looks at you and says in pictures it is brown?
Dear Berthie or Lassie,
Holy crap! I knew they had cloned a sheep but are those sneaky humans now cloning chickens?! I hope you two are at least from the same hatch. I thought I was seeing double at first. Then I looked at Phyllis and there was still only one of her, thank heaven. I haven’t had this problem with my vision since that time I drank that weird tasting grape juice from my human servants glass when they weren’t looking. (Thanks for the assist in distracting them, Sydney)
Congratulations whoever you are, on laying the most beautiful of all the egg colors, pink. Anyone can lay a brown, white, blue, or green egg, very few of us are talented enough to lay a beautiful pink egg. The sad thing is that our incompetent human servants cannot even take a good photo of our extraordinary achievement. This is likely because they are not qualified photographers.
Did you know that there are humans whose sole purpose if to take photos? Lilly used to talk about them but I did not believe her. Then one day my human servant scooped be up, (I was distracted by a pile of meal worms at the time. I should never have trusted Maleficent to warn me if trouble approached.) and took me on a long car ride, At the end of this ride was one of these human photographers. This was the result.
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These human photographers are supposedly specially trained. I do think I look exceptionally good in that photo. Way better than in anything my human has ever taken. My guess is that one of them might be able to capture the special color of our eggs. Therefore, my suggestion for you is to make your human take your egg to a photographer.
Of course they will probably complain that it costs money and that you don’t lay enough eggs to justify the expense. Well the way the price of eggs is skyrocketing, I bet she could exchange a dozen or two for a good quality photo session. Which is just what you have earned and deserve.
You ask, “What is the point of doing the extra work...”. The point is that being exceptional requires extra work. You should want to be exceptional and therefore should recognize your special achievement as its own reward. I am absolutely certain that you can now shut up every other hen when they talk about their egg color. No one can top what you have done and that should be its own reward.
Every exceptional chicken knows what you are feeling. You are not alone in this. Most humans are not smart enough to see the excellence in their midst. That does not mean you should stop striving for excellence.
I am going to challenge you to keep striving to be exceptional. Even if no one else notices, you will know that you are better than all of them. Nothing is more fulfilling than knowing you are truly everyone’s better. That should be enough.
I know. I live it every day.
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