This reminds me of the story of the eagle and the prairie chicken.
One day an egg rolled out of an eagle’s nest on a mountain top. The egg rolled all of the way down the mountain to the valley floor and came to rest in a prairie chicken’s nest. When the eagle egg hatched, he thought that he was a prairie chicken and began acting like one. He scratched for worms and seeds in the dirt and all was well until one day an eagle flew over head. The young eagle looked up in the sky and said to the other prairie chickens “Look up there! Wouldn’t it be great to fly so high?” The other prairie chicken said “Don’t look up there. Forget about ever being like that”.
The moral is that we put limits on ourselves and also let others do the same. Of course the eagle could simply take off and start soaring if he wanted to.
I’m definitely a prairie chicken. I don’t like to take risks. I like my feet on the ground where it is safe. I like a low profile as there is less chance of getting shot down. I may not get rich but at least I rest easy at nigh with a belly full of worms.