Lessons from the Geese
- 1. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an "uplift" for the bird following. By flying in a V formation, the whole flock gains 71% flying range over each bird's ability flying alone.
- Lesson: People who share a common direction and sense of community can
get where they are going more quickly and more easily because they are
traveling on the thrust of one another.
- 2. Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the "lifting power" of the bird immediately in front.
- Lesson: If we have as much sense as the goose, we will stay in formation
with those who are headed where we want to go.
- 3. When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies at the point position.
- Lesson: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks, sharing leadership,
interdependent with each other.
- 4. The geese in formation honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
- Lesson: We need to make sure our honking from behind is
encouraging...not something less helpful.
- 5. When a goose get sick or wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow him down to help and protect him. They stay with him until he is either able to fly again or dies. Then they launch out on their own to join another formation or rejoin their own flock.
- Lesson: If we have as much sense as the geese, we'll stand by each
other.
- Author Unknown
What do Geese have to do with PTC?
Why does this page and others have as a border flying geese? PTC is a disease that is rare and devastating to many who have it. As the families, caretakers, suffers and physicians who treat and suffer from this, we must stand together like the geese. Geese are there for each other. When one is tired and falls back, another takes its place, and as PTC suffers we must all do the same thing.One other inspiration that the geese can give us: geese fly together in a V formation. Let this be our V for Victory against this disease!
If you want to share with others who have PTC on an internet support group, some groups are listed on the Links page.
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