Shall I perch on this branch or would that one over there be better? Maybe I shouldn’t sit on a branch at all. Perhaps I should be flying. But I’m not sure I want to fly right now. Maybe I should start building a new nest since my present one is so old. But if I work on my nest, then I won’t have enough time to preen my feathers to attract eagles of the opposite sex. But if I attract female eagles, it won’t be long before I have to provide for baby eagles which would take even more of my limited time. I wonder what I should have for lunch today? A tasty trout might be good, but maybe a fat river rat would be even better, or perhaps a wild rabbit would hit the spot. Should I fly south for the winter? Maybe I should stick around here so I don’t have to do so much flying. It’s really quite a hassle to have to adapt to a whole new habitat south of the border. I know what I’ll do. I’ll just sit on this branch and do nothing.

Eagles are lucky because they don’t have problems with ambivalence. When it’s time to perch, they perch. When it’s time to fly, they fly. When it’s time to eat, they eat. When it’s time to build a nest, they build one.

Can you imagine what the wilderness would be like if there were thousands of neurotic eagles sitting around in the forest overwhelmed by inertia doing nothing? If that happened, they would become just like us when we sit around doing nothing except complaining about our lives and being overwhelmed by ambivalence.

I have decided to fly like an eagle and say good-bye to ambivalence in my life.

The osprey in this picture is coming in for a non-ambivalent landing.  He's totally committed to perching on this rusted Red Sea tower on an island near the coast of Eritrea.