2003-08-13 :: If Jonathan is just a seagull, then what am I?

Hi there.

I went to the local library yeterday (too lazy to go to the uni one) and borrowed Don Quijote, as I've already told you before. But I didn't only borrow that book, I also borrowed a book called "Jonathan Livingstone Seagull"

Have you heard of it? It's a really thin book with heaps of photos of seagulls here and there.

It didn't even take me 20 mins to finish reading it. And it got me really thinking.

When reading the book, the fact that I studied a bit of phylosophy last semester helped a lot.

Sure the main character is a seagull, and it talks about the seagull society, but it can easily be applied to our own society, and even more, our own life, individual beings.

I think, and this is only my own opinion, but the book talks about the purpose of life. Seagulls are there, flying around the fishing ship, but what for? Do they only live to get food? Jonathan was the seagull who asked that question, and it was he himself who found out the answer to it.

What we are expected to do, means nothing. To live, is to find the purpose of life. To find out what we really want to do. If it is to fly like nobody else can, then set your mind to it and when you achieve that goal, to understand what you have to learn, that is when you're free.

Free from all the expectations that is making limits to your life.

...Ok, maybe I didn't quite understand the book.

Yes, I'm going to re-read it tonight..