The story had many twists and turns, which got me laughing (out loud sometimes and imagining I was reading this in a coffee shop), but the underlying lessons were so rich. All Sprout wanted was to lay ONE egg and hatch one chick. Miraculously, she survived the culling and escaped into the barn where a rooster and his hen ruled. That told the farmer it was time to have Sprout culled. The final egg she laid was a shell-less one. With her health and life force dwindling, her eggs became smaller and smaller. The heartache had got to a point when she became depressed and refused to lay another egg. As an egg-laying hen, her heart breaks a little every morning when the farmer's wife comes to collect the egg she had painstakingly laid.
Kept in a chicken coop so cramped and small, she could hardly flap her wings without slapping them against the wire. The main character here, a hen, was Sprout.
Let me distill them for you here.īut first, a quick summary to set the context. These, I believe, are the invaluable lessons that every woman will need to make difficult choices about life. Read till the end, and you’ll understand what I mean.īut first, back to the story about the hen who dreamed she could fly.īuried in every line and page was a golden life lesson. I secretly think I must be the hen in the story, and this book was written for people like me. To be honest, the story resonated with me on so many levels. Curiosity got the better of me, and I got a copy of the book, and god, was I blown away. How can a hen ever fly, no matter how hard she dreams? What a cute and hopeful title, yet at the same time, sad. Some years ago, a book caught my eye while walking around the bookstore. This first issue of my brand new newsletter is repurposed from an article that I wrote some time back (before LinkedIn started offering Newsletters), so now it’s time to jump on board this bandwagon and consolidate my work in one place. Insights From “The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly” by Sun-Mi Hwang – Valuable Life Lessons for Every Woman About Choices and Life
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