More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly…. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight -how to get from shore to food and back again. The story begins with a seagull named Jonathan who dreams of flying better than a seagull has ever flown, instead of spending his days looking for scraps of food. The author writes: The essence of the tale is a seagull’s desire to fly and his developing understanding of what flying means. This story has been described as a fable, a homily, and an allegory. Your new way of living may expose the drab existence that they are still clinging to.įor those readers developing the practice of listening to a voice other than those that clamor around them, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a welcome companion. If you’ve spent your life trying to do what is expected of you, your stepping out of that role may cause some consternation on the part of the people around you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too… What happens when you start to live as your true self? There is certainly some fear in starting to become the person you were born to be.
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