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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Review

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Channel: Jonathan Lippe · 2018 · Education

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Review

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I originally read Jonathan Livingston Seagull when I was 22, shortly after graduating college.
I was named after the book.  My name has the same syllables and is Jonathan Christopher Lippe.
I used to see the book on my parents bookshelf as a young kid but I always felt that I needed to be older to read it.   Waiting until the time was right to read it was a good move.  I enjoyed reading it in 2001.  It was a short read
Recently when looking online to purchase Illusions, I saw that there was an updated version of Jonathan Livingston Seagull that had a rediscovered Part Four in it.  Since the year was 2018, I figured it was the right time to re-read the book I was named after, especially since there is a new Part 4 added to it.
The four parts are broken into aspects of his Journey.
Part 1 is Jonathan as part of the Seagull Flock forced into the limitations of the rules of society and he desired to experience more out of life and fly in forbidden ways and experience the glory of excellence.  The flock outcasted him for being an individual instead of part of the collective.
Part 2 is his journey as an outcast, and discovering a new flock of great seagulls who all desired the pursuit of excellence and masterful flight and their training sessions of acquiring knowledge over faith.  As Jonathan learns the knowledge of the greats, of working on love he desired to bring the knowledge back to his original flock because he was born to be an instructor.
Part 3 Is his return to the original flock that outcasted him with his new master birds where they show off their skills and recruit the birds of the old flock who desired to learn the ways of the great ones and remove their limitations.
“Jonathan Seagull was born to be an instructor, and his own way of demonstrating love was to give something of the truth that he had seen to a gull who asked only a chance to see truth for himself”
This is the same passion that drives my life.  Since adolescence, I’ve loved unlocking minds from the shackles of societal norms and status quo.

Part 4 is How over time the legend of the great ones get tarnished and the message gets muddied and how people confuse what was an original message with something completely incorrect.  How laziness takes over and that pursuit of excellence gets outsources to great ones of the past and no longer imitated or strived for.

There was a line by Jay-Z on his song Beach Chair that made me wonder if he read Jonathan Livingston Seagull at some point in his life.
The line Jay Z says is Son said "Hov, how you get so fly?"
I said "from not bein' afraid to fall out the sky"

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