Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection on Richard Bach’s, Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull seeks to fly like no other seagull has ever flown. He’s getting discouraged.
“As he sank low in the water, a strange hollow voice sounded within him there’s no way around it. I am a seagull. I am limited by my nature. If I meant to learn so much about flying, I’d have charts for brains if I were meant to fly at speed, I’d have a falcon’s sharp wings, and live on mice instead of fish. My father was right. I must forget this foolishness I must fly home to the flock and be content as I am, as they poor limited seagull.”
Note: it is easy to get discouraged. We’ve all been there. We may have tried to lose weight and it didn’t come off as fast as we wanted, and we get discouraged. We may have tried to exercise more but found it difficult and we got discouraged and gave up. We may have tried for a new job, and we didn’t get it and we got discouraged and decided this is as far as we can go. Well, that’s all nonsense. As we read on in this book we’ll discover that it is nonsense. When the Blues come and visit you and tell you to give up, speak out loud to them and tell them not to lift the door hit them in them in the ass when they leave because they will leave if we do not pay attention to them.