It's a Duck's Life

I am at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando attending a conference. It is a lovely accommodation. Its cache is the famous Peabody ducks. The duck logo can be found everywhere including on the toilet paper. There is duck shaped soap and duck shaped butter. And, there are real ducks that reside here. It goes back to a tradition at the first hotel in Memphis. Anyway, there are 6 mallard ducks that spend the day in a marble fountain in one of the marble lobbies and then spend the night in their "duck castle" (a big cage) located on one of the hotel's verandas. They live a very safe and pampered life. No stress, no troubles but they never get to fly. All they do is waddle from the fountain in the morning and then back to the castle in the evening where food awaits. They never fly, they never migrate, they never live fully as ducks.

So the question becomes for each of us - do we waddle in safety or do we fly in freedom?