Why does the humming bird sing?

I found, in a very quiet moment, that I actually heard a humming bird sing.  I thought humming birds only hummed. At first I thought it was singing to call out to it's mate, its companion in the world. Then my own inner voiced chimed in and uttered the epiphany that caught me off guard. It sings because that is what they do, sing, simple.  They get this name from the sound their wings make when flying.
Who ever wants can fill in the blanks of this analogy at will.
They sing because that is their hard-wired design.  They sing because of the gratitude in their tiny bird heart that beats far faster than a human heart. Their vision and focus are acute. They are strong in storms and find shelter in trees, not bird houses.  They can fly up, down, right, left, backwards, upside down and even loop-de-loops! Amazing!
Singing is a scratchy sound when listening to the tiny creatures in isolation.  In comparision to other birds the humming bird never hums, it sings.
Learning how to sing has been one of those talents that each soul has journeyed a lifetime for. Some of those journeys are arduous and daunted by mirrors and recordings of what the rest of the species sound like and look like. Comparison has kept us all in our place of doubt.  Feeling and seeing our song as not good enough. Not trusting that our song is simply, our song.  Caged birds, free birds(yes 80's recall here), whatever our song may be it is still our song.  We choose it, we are designed to sing it for the place we are in time.   That was the magic of today.  The choice to sing the song of my heart. To replace the doubt of comparing myself to others and embrace the reality of my gift and pioneering spirit.  Being different like a humming bird is to the rest of the bird world, is also a unique gift, singing differently in comparison is not good, not bad, just different.  The humming bird doesn't try to fit in with the rest of the bird world, it does exactly what it is designed to do, just differently. They are present in their space and mindful of winds and rains.
Beauty and grace in action (Sandra), is finding that safe place of trust and confidence.  Confidence in the knowing that different is an architectural feature not a flaw.

Haven't you had enough of wondering why we are so different? Why does it matter? Who was the idiot that made us believe that different is not good?  To that inventor, I know the road less traveled is a hard one.  Pioneering spirits in this time are doing exactly what they should be doing, singing their own song, passionately and with conviction, believing that different is a good fit for them.
The world may be preparing for the winter of economical change on a daily basis, but shouldn't we be mindful of the winds of change and know that our song is the one thing we should prepare?  We don't have to memorize the words of our song, we don't have to practice it in front of the mirror with a hairbrush as a microphone.  We just have to sing it from our genetic design, from our heart and from the sticking place.   Sing without notes, without a teleprompter with lyrics. Just sing from the heart.  This is what the Universe is waiting for, what society needs to heal and what we need to grow from.  A nurturing song of acceptance and change from the heart.