I Dare U, Chicken Licken*

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."– Mahatma Gandhi

Today I will dare myself to summon my courage, dispel all fears and negativity, and see what happens.

* From Wikipedia:
The Sky Is Falling, also known as Chicken Little, Chicken Licken or Henny Penny is an old, classical fable of unknown origin about a chicken who believes the sky is falling. The phrase has also become used to indicate a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent.
There are many versions of the story, but the basic premise is that a chicken called Chicken Little, Chicken Licken or Henny Penny believes the sky is falling down because an acorn (or in some versions a pebble that falls from a roof) falls on his (or, sometimes, her) head. He decides to tell the King, and on his journey meets other animals who join him in his quest. In most retellings, the other animals have similarly rhyming names (See Characters). Finally, they come across Foxy Loxy, a fox who offers to guide them all with the King, but taking them instead into his cave. At this point, there are many endings. In the most famous one, Foxy Loxy kills all of Chicken Little/Licken's friends, but the last one survives enough to warn Chicken Little/Licken and he escapes. Other endings include Foxy eating them all, them being saved by a squirrel or an owl and/or getting to speak to the King, and even one in which the sky actually falls down and kills Foxy Loxy.Depending on the version, the moral changes. In the "happy ending" version, the moral is not to be a "Chicken Little" and have courage. In other versions the moral is usually interpreted to mean "do not believe everything you are told". In the latter case, it could well be a cautionary political tale: Chicken Little jumps to a conclusion and whips the populace into mass hysteria, which the unscrupulous fox uses to manipulate them for his own benefit.
The Sky Is Falling has been taken into children books many times, having both Chicken Little and Henny Penny as main characters. Some of those books are in print today.
Walt Disney Studios has adapted this story into animation twice. The first adaptation was an animated short released during World War II. It tells a variant of the parable in which all the animals are eaten by Foxy Loxy, and uses this as an allegory for the idea that wartime fear-mongering weakens the war effort and costs lives.
The second Disney adaptation is a feature-length computer-animated film which bears little resemblance to the plot of the original fable. It focuses on Chicken Little's disappointment that no one believed his claim that the sky was falling, and follows his story of redemption as he shows that something strange did indeed fall from the sky.
The animated series Garfield and Friends adaptated the story for the U.S. Acres segment "Badtime Story", in which Bo, Lanolin, Roy, and Wade all fill in for a sick Orson to read the story to Booker and Sheldon. Throughout the story, the characters (played by regulars on the series) blame the sky's falling on "all this tampering with the ozone layer". The episode also manages to poke fun at the story's extensive use of rhyming names with a scene in which Wade lists the names of everyone involved in Chicken Licken's quest, among them Catty Fatty (portrayed by Garfield himself) and Beaver Cleaver (a reference to Leave It to Beaver).
The fable is refered to in many modern shows and movies. One of which is The Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode, Hotel Hangout, on which Carey Martin says to Marion Moseby, "Mr. Moseby, every little problem with you is like, 'The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Then a satelite dish falls from the roof and Marion Moseby replies, "Sometimes Chicken Little knows what he's talking about!"

Theme song for the day: "Kalau Engkau Berkalau" by Anita Sarawak.