Jonathan Livingston Seagull
(Richard Bach)
"Where is everybody, Sullivan?" he asked silently, quite at
home now withthe easy telepathy that these gulls used
instead of screes and gracks. "Why aren't there more of us
here? Why, where I came from there were.. "
"... thousands and thousands of gulls. I know. "
Sullivan shook his head.
"The only answer I can see, Jonathan, is that you are
pretty well a one-in-a-million bird. Most of us came along
ever so slowly. We went fromone world into another that
was almost exactly like it, forgetting rightaway where
we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living
for the moment. Do you have any idea how many lives we must
have gone through before we even got the first idea that
there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power
in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!
And then another hundred lives until we began to learn
that there is such a thing as perfection, and another
hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living
is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule
holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through
what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world
is the same as thisone, all the same limitations and lead
weights to overcome."
He stretched his wings and turned to face the wind.
"But you, Jon," he said, "learned so much at one time
that youdidn't have to go through a thousand lives to
reach this one."
I love this book. Everyone should read it.
It's like The Little Princea MUST read...
Oh how I wish I was that seagull, that one who lived his
life likeno other... I wish I was like Jonathan, who wasn't
scared to trysomething new,to leave the flock and see the
world, fly loops, find himself despite all the other seagulls
who warned him..
I don't want to live my life in a flock that holds me back.
I want to live in one that encourages me, that wants the best
for me but that is able to let me go and let me experience
things in my time and the place I choose. I am so grateful
for my parents, my family, my flock. I am sooo blessed to
call them mine! They are letting me fly, they are giving me
a kind of freedom that i never felt before. Despite the
sadness this will bring they are letting me be me.. On
this journey of finding myself they are encouraging me
and even if I fail, they will be the first to pick me back
up (along with some friends of mine;)).
I thank God every day for them, I cant believe how lucky I
am to be their daughter...
I hope there are more people out there, who don't let
life slip by them..
Life is precious, we need to enjoy every second of it..
We have to squeeze all the juice out of it and take it in...
