Once a pregnant Lion died soon after giving birth. The newborn cub started to roam around and it saw a herd of sheep. The mother sheep decided to raise the cub.

With time, that little cub grew up along with sheep and started to think and act just like a sheep. It would even eat grass like sheep.

The lion was teased by other sheep for being so different. Some of them would say, “You are so ugly. Your voice is so weird. You are a disgrace to sheep family.”

The lion felt sad that he didn’t look like them. The lion was tired of getting along with sheep herd. But it felt guilty that he had let down the sheep community by being so different.

One day, an older lion saw the herd of sheep and decided to attack it. While attacking, it saw the young lion running away along with the other sheep.

The older lion got curious and decided to pursue the younger lion. Soon it was able to pounce on the young lion and then asked, “Why are you running away with the sheep?”

The younger lion who had never seen lion, shaking in fear it said, “Please don’t eat me. I am just a young sheep, please let me go..!!”

Hearing this, the older lion growled, “What? You are not a sheep. You are a lion just like me.”

The young lion just kept on saying, “I am a sheep. please let me go.”

At that point, the older lion got an idea. It dragged the younger lion to a river nearby and asked it to look at its reflection. Upon looking at the reflection and then the older lion, the young lion realized who he really was.

The young lion felt so thrilled that it gave a mighty roar.

It is always easy to lose one's true identity and potential amidst the culture and the belief in which one is brought up.