Nectar or Carrion?

        This may seem like an extremely weird title, which it is. But I hope I can make sense of it. The other day I heard an analogy about how vultures eat rotten dead things and hummingbirds eat sweet nectar. So which one do you want to be and which one are you? Do you go around looking for the "sweet" things in life or the "dead" things? This got me thinking. While the analogy makes it's point I wondered if it could be expanded upon. So I I started researching a bit on both of these birds to find differences and special characteristics. If you think about it they are complete opposites. But let's say you compare each of these birds to a different mindset. The hummingbird in this case would be optimism, looking for the sweeter things. The vulture would represent negativity or pessimism. Now think about this. Think about how hard a hummingbird works. You can't even see his wings when they flap. Their heart rates can be up to 120 beats per minute and their wing beats can be up to 20 times a second or more. The hummingbird works so hard to do what he does. Some migrate all the way from Alaska to Mexico. That's pretty amazing if you think about this tiny little bird going that incredible distance. These birds have such a high metabolism that they must eat 5-8 times per hour to survive. They work so hard, yet they can accomplish an almost unimaginably long flight for their size. Now think about the vulture. Think about how you can see vultures gliding through the air. You can watch them for ages and you won't see them move their wings even a tiny bit. They go around looking for dead animals and such. That's how they survive. They can go long periods of time without eating because it takes them almost no effort to fly. They also have amazing eyesight. They are able to see things from distances that would be almost impossible to see with the human eye. These birds live a pretty boring life as well, they stay around the same area for most of their lives. They have no large migrations unlike the hummingbird. So what am I saying? The hummingbird try's his hardest to find the good things in life, even though it may be hard. But in the end he can accomplish so much. While the vulture doesn't even have to put much of an effort into finding the bad things. He can spot things and make them bad in his mind that others would not even think of as being bad. As you've probably realized I'm not talking about the birds anymore. I'm talking about two different types of people. The people who when they work hard and are optimistic, they can accomplish something great. And the people who are negative just because they can be, can do it with ease. They can make a good thing a bad thing with just solely their negativity. But in the end they will accomplish nothing. They will be a person who went through life without putting any hard work in and just being content with living on the dead things. So which one are you? The HummingBird or the Vulture? And which one do you want to be?