The Eagle’s Choice — "How could I have been so wrong about people?" — "Listen... there is a fact about the mountain eagle. At forty, his beak grows so long and curved that he can no longer eat. His talons turn inward, becoming useless for the hunt. His feathers grow so thick and heavy against his chest that he can barely fly. He is dragged down by his own body. And so, the eagle flies to the highest peaks and begins to smash his beak against the rocks until it breaks off. He waits for a new one to grow, and then he uses it to tear out his own claws and pluck away his heavy feathers. Five months of hunger, agony, and fierce tremors... and then, he is reborn. He gets another thirty years of life." — "Why are you telling me this right now?" — "Because there comes a moment in a man's life when you either break yourself to start over, or you simply perish. You’re at that peak now. It’s time to decide." As the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said: "You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"