Jonathan Livingston The Seagull is a short story in the form of a fairy tale with a definite moral background: don't be afraid to soar.
He's fifty-two but it's like it was written yesterday. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" was and continues to be one of those books that should not be missing from the shelves of the house. Short (just 100 pages), but with immense power, the text written by Richard Bach, writer and pilot, is a true best-seller of the twentieth century. Why remember it today?
Because after 52 years (the first printing dates back to 1970) it represents a short novel in the form of a fairy tale with a precise moral background: don't be afraid to take flight, but invest in yourself. Freely.
Inspired by an aerobatic pilot who marked the history of world aviation in the period of the American Great Depression, John H. Livingston, the book is the story of the Jonathan seagull abandoning its flock, a flock that is unable to understand its attitudes and, indeed, condemns them because they are simply different.
The "common seagulls", in fact, do not come to understand the beauty of freedom, the richness of being "different" from another. For them, flying is a mere act of procuring food, nothing more. For Jonathan, however, the volo it is much more, it is an act of intelligence, an occasion for perfection and happiness.
“He felt alive as never before, and shivering with joy, proud of having tamed fear. Then, without any delay, he drew his wings to his body, extending only the angled sömmoli, and hurled himself headlong from above. After about three hundred meters, he had already reached the old speed-limit: the wind was now a solid pulsating barrier, to be broken through, he could not give in stronger. […] But speed was power, it was joy, it was beauty ”.
Page after page the Jonathan seagull becomes a guide for those who learn to know each other deeply and not refuse, for those who understand what they want more because they feel in the right place, despite the prejudices of others. He teaches, Jonathan, not to be afraid to stand out, but to continue independently on their own path.
He encourages you to take flight, and to soar in the sky to experience and satisfy the curiosities of life, so that you can say that you have crossed new exciting horizons.
"Whatever you do, never think about what others will say, just follow yourself, because only you in your little one know what is good and what is bad, everyone has their own point of view, never forget it, learn to distinguish yourself, to get out of the crowd, never allow anyone to categorize you as a "clone of someone else", you are special because you are unique, never forget it ".
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