Richard Bach's novel Jonathan the Seagull tells the story of Jonathan, a seagull eager to fly.
He loves to fly, but is ostracized by his people. Later, he flew to heaven and began a carefree life. He tells us that flying is not a tool for survival, not for any other purpose, but simply for the pure pleasure of flying itself! This book uses an absolutely perfect fable to tell us how to spend our lives in the happiest way possible.
Jonathan the Seagull Jonathan was born in a normal flock of gulls that fly for food, but Jonathan is different in that he craves true flight. He would try to practice flying, and he even felt that the life of the gulls was boring, and only flying was happy, but his ideas were never understood by any of the gulls in the flock, not even his parents.
Jonathan also wanted to give up real flight and become an ordinary seagull, but when he found a way to fly, he abandoned his oath, because his heart would not let him give up the pursuit of real flight. But unable to understand, he was eventually exiled by a flock of seagulls.
Jonathan was lucky that he was taken to "heaven" by the seagulls who understood him and was taught by the seagulls who knew how to fly, and his firm faith and unremitting efforts made him learn to really fly and experience the joy of real flying.
Jonathan also said to his students, "Break through the shackles of your mind, and break through the locks of your body." "What we can't always break through is not the external difficulties but our own thoughts, maybe we have goals or ideals, but because our thoughts dare not break through, we become satisfied with the status quo, willing to be ordinary, and whenever we recall and find the past that is repeated every day, we find out how boring life is."
Some great people, in their time, were not favored and recognized, but their faith was firm, and they refused to give up their faith easily, so they succeeded and became great people. Jonathan said that "fate can be rewritten, the key lies in ourselves" We always think that the success of others is because they are naturally capable, because they are not naturally capable enough and do not work hard.
We are happy when our goals are achieved, and we are hard and happy in the process of achieving them.
Read "Jonathan the Seagull" to let the mind experience the real flight.
Freedom is high
To live is to pursue perfection and extremes
Excerpts from the book
· "I just want to know what I can do in heaven, what I can't do, I just want to know this."
· The years ahead beckon, radiating a ray of hope.
· "Who could be more responsible than exploring a meaning of life, a noble purpose of life?"
· The most important thing in life is to cling to your favorites and perfect them day by day.
· Heaven is not a place, nor is it a period of time, (because time and space have no meaning) Heaven is a perfect state.
· If our friendship depends on things like space-time, then when we finally conquer space-time, isn't that ruining the brotherhood?! But in fact, when we conquer space, we have "here"; when we conquer time, we have "this time". Between this and this place, don't you think we'll have a chance to see each other again?
·" Everything that limits us must be removed. "
· "We are free to go wherever we want to go and be whatever we want to be."
You have the freedom to shape your true self, and nothing can stop you here and now.
· Freedom is the essence of life, and all customs, superstitions and restrictions that hinder freedom should be rejected.
· Don't just believe what your eyes see, they show extremely limited amounts.
About the Author:
Richard Bach was a famous American writer, poet, and pilot. Born in Illinois in 1936, he began to learn to fly at the age of 17, and began to write literature after graduating from college in 1955, writing masterpieces such as "Jonathan the Seagull", "Phantom", "One", "Biplane", "The World Has Never Been" and so on. The words are often deeply attached to the individual heart, and the work has fascinated readers around the world with its firm strength and profound metaphors, and has been praised as "a messenger from heaven".