Are you a Migrating Bird?

So I had a dream that I continue to think about even though weeks have passed since I dreamt it. Here is how it goes....

I am a bird, a beautiful bird I might add, flying high over the Amazon Jungle. The trees are tall & swaying in the jungle breeze. The sun is glistening off of the pools & rivers of water that I see. Flying is extraordinary what a way to live!

I decide that I am going to land & hang out in the top of the trees to rest I guess. I never really figured out why I was resting. All of a sudden I hear another bird & I look up. There is a white bird I am not sure of what kind. I only know that he was talking to me & asking me if he could join me, of course I said.

If you haven't noticed my birds, animals, etc....everything talks in my dreams!

Well as this white bird lands in the tree with me to chat I ask him "where are you going?" He replies, I am a migratory bird. A what? A migratory bird, I can only fly one path. In the Winter I fly South & in the Summer I fly North. That is what I do said the white bird. I pondered this & I said, " that is so sad, to be able to fly in the sky but only be able to fly a certain path. Wouldn't that be boring? How could one be so free, but yet held to one path because of instinct? Destiny? Habit?

The dream ended there as I woke up (probably the alarm went off) but it really got me to thinking about how this dream parallels with our lives in the waking world.

We walk around all of our lives kind of like migratory birds. We get into a routine whether it be school, work, the Monday thru Friday grind and we allow day by day to pass by. We continue for the most part to do the same thing & live our life on a path like the migratory bird. I am this way too. Deep within me though
I want to be like the colorful bird in my dream. I want to fly all over, not really having a predestined or instinctual path to follow. I want to enjoy the sights, sounds, & linger over living things I see that are of wonder to me.

I need to step out of my migratory habits & become more like the bird in my dreams to experience life out of my comfort zone. Out of my waking sleep that takes me through the day. I want not just to live but to experience everything so I can soar within my peace & be satisfied.

Will you be a migratory bird or will you soar to new heights?