Thank God birds aren't humans, cause if they were, no bird would learn how to fly.
I did a quick check on how birds learn how to fly, [no, it's not as simple as installing software], and the bird parents have to be cruel.
The first few weeks, the young would naturally be pampered, fed with a golden beak blah blah blah, but this can't last forever, since birds will die eventually. [perhaps humans could learn something from this too eh]
And, so some birds will cajole their young by offering food from a distance, so they would have to walk out of their nest, while other birds would slowly demolish the nest part by part, so at the end, the young has to fly off because there isn't any nest and any food. The food would be a huge factor of course.
Then there are some who gently carry their kid in their beak and then unceremoniously drop down from a height. Self-survival skills would kick in and the bird has no choice but to flutter its wings and try to fly.
But all hope is dashed, because the parent watches over and swoops in to pluck the young to safety.
Sometimes we seem to be falling too fast too furious that we forget somebody's watching over us, and we try our best to stop falling, and can't and we lose hope.
But what good if a bird loses hope while trying to fly, and can never fly? It'll be as useless as a butterfly hiding in its cocoon and not wanting to leave.
