Birdie

Birdie is a young bird, who is afraid to fly when there's water around her. Because when Birdie was still a baby, an amateur, still learning to fly she once almost came whiffling down because she wasn't good enough yet to fly in the rain, the fear filled her heart ever since. And papa bird always tried to remind Birdie to be brave enough and be strong, knowing one day she'll be stronger and braver to endure setting a flight on a rainy day. But her fear was greater than her tiny courage, she had to become braver, which papa bird believed she will be.
I wrote 'Birdie' after reading a very remarkable quote by Nelson Mandela that said, "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but triumph over it. The brave man is he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
'Birdie' is written from the point of view of only becoming braver until we can conquer our fear, until we realize the strength we carry, how strong we can be, and for once try to face the fear. Most of the time we develop fears only after a failure or some back story which is why we always hold back. We tend to become paranoid when faced with our fears because we have mentally taught our body to react like that, we let the fear overpower it until we become mentally numb that we don't realize we have the strength to endure it. Take it from a simple example, somebody who feels like they're drowning in a pool that is not even deep enough for them to sink in, and that fear of drowning is all that they're thinking about that they forget they can still stand in the pool and still have their head above the water.