Well this book was lying with me since past one an half years but just didn’t get the time to go through it and to be honest was neither interested!!! I don’t know why but this book just seemed so lifeless…..it was just lying somewhere in my office drawer. Finally when last week I left my company I took all my belongings back home with me including Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
It’s the only fable (as of now) I have ever read and trust me this is a beautiful one….It gave me peace, inspiration, joy and an eye to see & enjoy nature’s beauty in every way possible…
Ok first let me tell you what the book is on. It is about Jonathan Livingston, a seagull who is bored with his routined life and the limitations of the life of a seagull.It starts with Jonathan practicing to fly high…as he is passionate about flying and wants to learn everything about it. Due to this he is evicted from his flock but that does not let him down. He keeps on trying and practicing and finally becomes the master of the art of flying. Jonathan’s mission is successful as he makes a huge group of seagulls who all have been outlawed for not obeying the rules of seagull society because of their love for the same. And finally at the end, one of his students, Fletcher Lynd Seagull, becomes a teacher of a the group as Jonathan leaves to continue higher learning.
Richard Bach’s way of narration of a life of a seagull is just mind-blowing (Sorry but I can’t find any sophisticated term for it!!!). It infuses a new zeal of enthusiasm in you. There are some beautiful pictures of the flight of the bird which will catch your imagination instantly…infact you will feel as if you are watching some documentary on the life of seagull on discovery channel!! Beautiful photography…! Coming back to what I feel…. I have never come across a book that has a combination of story, narration, pictures and emotions all in one…
A little on the writer: Richard David Bach is an American writer and an ex-air force pilot. I came to know through a website that even he is passionate about flying and has been persuing it as hobby since the age of 17. Seems he himself is the inspiration for the book!
Would just conclude by saying that although I haven’t read any of his other works, I will make it a point that I do so soon……
"Life is not measured by
the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments
that take our breath away."
So true….