A Whole New Outlook on Life

THERE IS an age-old African legend that whenever an ostrich sees the outbreak of a savanna bushfire likely to destroy its brood or its eggs, the only precaution it cares to take is to bury its head in the ground. It does so in the pretense that "if I cannot see the fire, then the fire cannot destroy me." But the reality remains; when the fire spreads and finds the ostrich unprepared, it sweeps away the whole family, including the unprotected eggs and chicks.