Too irresponsible

 Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Livingston
morning, the rising sun shines on a tranquil sea, the waves of the microwave flashing golden.
A mile offshore at sea, a fishing boat to move forward with wave by wave, This is the signal for breakfast, nearly a thousand birds flying, breast oil list, chasing each other fighting over food to eat. and began a busy day.
but far from the fishing boats and the shore, seagulls Jonah Sen. Livingston alone in the practice flight. over a hundred feet, he stretched with the next two webbed feet, looked up and mouth, so awkward bent wings. wings curved, can slow down. And now, he more over the slow, slow almost hear the wind in the ears, even slow the foot of the sea also seems to stand still. He narrowed his eyes, concentrate, hold your breath, so awkward that one would like hh hh bending inch hh then, he was covered in feathers until firm, lost balance and fell.
you know, seagulls flying never falter, never out of balance. in the air out of balance, on the Seagull is a disgrace, is a very shameful thing.
but Jonathan does not feel ashamed, and he once again spread my wings, still trembling hard curve mm one bit to slow down, eleven out of balance again, he was no ordinary birds.
just to learn the easiest most gulls flying skills how to get from shore to food and back again. For them, the important thing is not flying, but for food. but only gulls, it is important not to eat, but flight. Jonathan loved to fly over everything.
he found the idea of like him, is unpopular in the same. He spent whole days alone, hundreds of times land for low-flying gliders, and even his parents have been worried for him.
he does not know why, as long as he kept away from the surface of the water less than half the height for the low-flying wing, he can stay in the air more long, with less effort. He does not like other birds, gliding down the stretch as the sea splashed under the feet, but Quanqi feet skimming the sea close to the body, with a long ripple in the water. He Quanqi double foot landings on the beach, then pacing the distance gliding on the beach, his parents met, really to worry about.
Mom asked. ;
said gently, eat a glide, ah. Do not forget, your fly is to eat. try, with the flock around the piers and fishing boats croaks fought over food, grab something to tie into the sea of fish and bread. But he could not make.
thought, deliberately dropping a carp finally get to throw chasing his hungry old gull.
Soon, Jonathan went out alone. He flew to the sea far away, hungry to learn, very happy.
subjects is speed. After a week of practice, he learned more about the knowledge of the speed , more than any one of the fastest living gulls fly.
from a thousand feet, flapping his wings hard, steep dive toward the waves, espionage capabilities & quot, so he understands the seagulls vertical dive without the truth. In six seconds, his speed of movement seventy miles per hour. at that speed, the wings up in one fell swoop, you'll lose balance.
it happened. regardless of his How careful, cast out of the heavily ability, but at high speed he lost control.
flew a thousand feet. He first full speed ahead. and then turned around, flapping his wings, vertical dive. to each as long as the wings in one fell swoop, the left always out of balance, he'd roll violently left, just to restore balance, the right-wing and out of control, and he flashed like fire to the right, milling crashing down.
give wings is really a problem, how can he take care of them. He tried ten times, ten times are the same, the speed of a seventy miles per hour, he lost control, became a mass of hairy, milling crashing down into the water.
wet Zhitang him water, and finally realized that the key is to make sure high-speed flight stationary mm flap their wings to fly to fifty miles per hour, and then hold the wings move .
two thousand feet from his try again. fifty miles an hour, he turned and swooped down to turn the mouth down, wings full out, motionless. This is very difficult, but successful. X. Within seconds, he reached a speed of ninety
in Britain. Jonathan had set a world speed record!
but the victory was short-lived. He was about to change the flight position, the replacement of the angle of the wings, and suddenly control failure, failure. ninety miles an hour fast, the just suffer, like explosives, Jonathan exploded in midair, crashed into a brick-like hard knots.
When he came to, it is night. He in the moonlight floating on the sea. His wings were ragged in the lead, but failed to load on his back even weight than lead. He played a faint ray of hope: I hope this re- pressure can he gradually down to the bottom, and end it all.
he sank in the water of the local, the hearts of all of a sudden a strange hollow voice sounded. there is no other way out. I am a seagull. I was born with the limitations of the conditions . If I know the old naive to flying, then I'd have charts for brains; If you really want me to fly at speed, I'd have a falcon's short wings, and mice instead of fish. My father said, right. I should not forget this foolishness. I should fly back to the Flock, divided to keep quiet, as a poor limited seagull talent.
voice is gone, Jonathan also succumbed. seagull at night is on shore. he vowed, he would be a normal gull. It would make everyone happy.
He was tired from the dark water and flew toward the land, I thought: I am glad I learned to fly at low altitude and effort.
no, he thought. I want to and past a clean break, I want the things they learned a clean break. I'm just like a seagull, like other gulls, I want to fly like them. So He labored to a hundred feet, more wildly flapping, flying towards the shore.
determined to do his Flock of Seagulls after another, and feeling some better. In the future, the sense of drove him to the relationship between power and he did not, and in the future, there will be a challenge, it would not be a failure. everything is rosy, just to stop thinking, through the darkness toward the lights on the beach and flew on it.
dark! The hollow voice cracked in alarm. Seagulls never fly in the dark!
not alert to listen. Everything is so good, he thought. moonlight and the lights The flashes emitted to the night a bunch of fluorescent, and all so peaceful and still hh
down! Seagulls never fly in the dark! If you fly in the dark, you'd have the eyes of an owl! you should have charts for brains! you'd have a falcon's short wings!
night a hundred feet in the air, Jonathan Livingston Seagull blinked. his pain, his determination, all of a sudden disappeared.
Short wings. A falcon's short wings!
this is the answer! I was a fool! I need is a tiny little wings, I have to do is to fold wings, only Flying with a wingtip! Is not that Short wings!
him from the black sea climbed two thousand feet, did not take into account the failure and death. He wing close to the body, only to wingtip on the narrow, streamline tip against the wind, followed by a vertical dive.
Side wind was a monster roar in his ears. seventy miles per hour, ninety miles, a hundred twenty miles faster still. to a hundred and forty per hour miles, the wings of the tension was not nearly as big as when the seventy miles. He bent a little bit wingtip to easily change the dive and swift as lightning passing waves in the moonlight, looked like a gray shells.
against the wind he slits his eyes, filled with joy, hundred and forty miles per hour! under control! If I am not from two thousand feet, but from five thousand feet sky dive, I really do not know how fast hh
just vows have been forgotten, has been great swift wind blew without a trace. But he does not betray his own vows because feel guilty . Only the gulls that only promises are. A grades has touched from time to kind of promise.
dawn, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was practicing again. From five thousand feet overlooking the calm fishing boats on the blue sea into a small point., Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust, floating in slowly.
he is still alive! he was trembling so slightly with delight, but also because they can inhibition of the fear and pride. followed, he did not hesitate to close the front wing tight, red, black I have two contacts, expand short. bent wingtip angle, sprang straight to the sea. he passed four thousand feet in height, has reached top speed, the wind was like a wall, solid wall, stopped in front, so that he can not move faster. He is now flying straight down, speed of two hundred and ten four miles. He swallowed, knowing that, if such a speed in the wings, it will be destroyed. but the speed is power, speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.
him a thousand feet change the flight position. wingtip crackling in the wind ringing in the outline are blurred; crowd of gulls tilting passing beside him, swift as the meteor projection.
He could not stop; he did not know at this how to turn the speed.
What immediately hit is dead.
off on his eyes.
Thus, in the morning, just after sunrise, that Jonathan Livingston Seagull eyes closed, each hour hundred twelve miles of high-speed record, lightning wildly in the Breakfast Flock group through the ears only hear the wind whistling sound and the scream of the flock.
destiny moving in He smiled, no one was killed.
mouth until he looked up into the sky, he was still hundred and sixty miles per hour speed ahead. Then he had slowed to twenty miles wings again at last four thousand feet below, the boat was floating on the sea turned into a bread crumb out.
he thought was victory. to achieve the highest speed! A seagull at two hundred fourteen miles per hour! really breakthrough, this is history's greatest seagull time, this time for Jonathan opened a new era. fly him to a separate practice area, folding his wings, from eight thousand feet, dive, try to figure out the how to turn.
He found that consumption of a feather to wing rotation just a faint to be firmly in the high speed flat to a sharp turn. He learned this before, also found that speed, as long as turn a feather can spin wildly like a top hh Jonathan had only stunts the world's first seagull.
this day, he was too busy with other gulls, but flew on, until evening. He learned tumbling, roll, the point roll, inverted, fixed and other aerobatics flight maneuver.
Jonathan Flock on the beach, it was already late at night. He was dizzy tired. but he cheerfully.
flew a loop down, about to land in a Get out of here Shihai. He thought that he broke the gulls are flying, they'll be wild with joy. Life has now become What a meaningful ah! addition to fishing boats circled around monotonously, the other purpose is there to life! we can get rid of ignorance, we can find ourselves as talented, intelligent, skilled creatures. We can be free! we can learn to fly !
the years to come filled with hope.
Jonathan landing, Flock is a meeting together. It seems they have set a long time. in fact they are waiting for him. Livingston! Stand to Center! . Of course, he thought, this morning at breakfast, they saw the Breakthrough! but I do not need honor, I do not want leaders. I just want to share what I learned, to show good prospects. He stepped forward.
What a blow! His knees went weak, his feathers sagged, there was roaring in the ears. stood in the middle shame? impossible! Breakthrough! they do not understand! they're wrong; wrong!
too rash, too irresponsible, banished to the is unknown. We came to this world, that is, to eat, to live, live as much as possible these days. responsible? fellow! the rotten fish head, but now we have to learn the purpose of life mm, to invent, to be free! give me one last chance, let me tell you what I learned hh br> a few days. that his pain was not solitude, but the other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them. they refused to listen and see.
the things he learned more each day . He found that streamlined high-speed dive could be found ten feet below the sea to swim to the rare and tasty fish. so that he no longer needed fishing boats and stale bread for survival. He learned to sleep in the air, riding from the coast on the winds blowing for night flying, flying from sunrise to sunset one hundred miles. He did the same internal control, across the sea of fog. rushed into the sky, into dazzling clear skies and at the same time, other they are nothing but gulls standing on the ground, only to see fog and rain. He learned to ride the winds far inland, with delicious insects.
he had all hoped for the Flock, and now he himself alone. He learn to fly, will not pay a huge price for their regretted. Jonathan discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons for the gulls were short-lived, once these gone from his thought, can really live longer, live good.
they came in the evening, and found Jonathan quietly alone in his love of gliding in the sky. They appear on both sides of the Jonathan is two wings of the gulls as starlight , the glow from them in the night sky high, it is extremely gentle and friendly. But the most lovely of their flying skills, and their wingtip has a precise and Jonathan kept one inch from the wingtip.
Jonathan put them test it.'ve never had a seagull pass the exam. He twisted his wings, slowed to a mile per hour, just above stall. The two radiant birds slowed with him, smoothly, and always maintained its original position. They knew about slow flying.
he tightened his wings, rolled to a hundred ninety miles Suji down. They followed him down a little bit of formation has not changed.
Finally, he changed the speed to a long vertical slow roll. They rolled with him, and he smiled.
He recovered to level flight after a brief pause before opening. strong and calm. Wind top flight. my old body a few hundred feet, you can not fly high hh school is finished, now another to begin. time.
he gave one last look toward the sky, in this magnificent silver, he had learned so much ah.
and Jonathan. Livingston Seagull and the rise with two crystal and disappeared in another dark sky.
second
So this is heaven, he thought, could not help but chuckled. a flying paradise for guessing it right away, it seems too respectful.
soaring from the world he came here with the two brilliant gulls tightly arranged in ranks. together through the clouds. now he found that his own body and as bright as theirs in the. Indeed, his life has been better than his golden eyes to be more abundant, but still the young Jonathan, now even the appearance had changed.
It felt like a seagull, but the fly has ever flown. he thought: It is strange, with half the effort, my speed faster than doubled in the past. My best achievement than on earth days doubled.
Now his feathers glowed brilliant white, like sheets of polished silver wings as smooth and perfect. He filled with joy, began to try to figure out their own wings, to press power into these up the new wings.
to two hundred and fifty miles per hour, he felt close to the maximum level flight speed. to At two hundred seventy three miles that has already decided he could not be more faster. He can not help a little bit disappointed. The new body will not think of a strong and can not. Although far beyond the level of the flight records of the past, but after all, limited speed, had to exceed the limits that would take some effort. he thought, in heaven, should be What is unlimited.
clouds broke apart, his escorts called, bending curve and flew the coastline. Seaside cliff A very few seagulls were working the updrafts. North a distance, on the horizon, and another flew a few others. a new vision, new ideas, new problems. Why so seagulls? Heaven should be flocked with gulls is! how all of a sudden I feel so tired? Gulls in heaven should never feel tired, it will never go to bed is.
where he heard it all of? memory his life on Earth was falling away. Of course, that place on earth, he learned a lot, but the details were blurred mm for food, but also seem to remember the flight, being Outcast.
dozen gulls fly over the shore to meet him, none saying a word. He just felt he was welcome, here is his home. This day is an important day for him, but he can not remember this days when the dawn is the beginning of the.
He turned to land on the beach, beating his wings in the air, mouth a moment, then gently landed on the beach. other gulls landed too, but no one among them not waving a feather. they fly upwind to start shining wings, then somehow the curvature of the feathers of a change to fall down, while the feet touch the ground. mastery of the fantastic. but this time it is Jonathan tired, a little also do not want to follow the learned. He stood on the beach, still silent, he was asleep.
few days later, Jonathan found here, and that part of his past life, as in flight has much to learn. The difference is, where the gulls have a common ideology with him. each of them, the most important thing in life is to give full play to their potential, the most favorite things a success, it is flying. they are all magnificent birds, all the time every day practicing flight, testing advanced aeronautics.
a long period of time, Jonathan forget that he had come from the world , forget the dwelling place that Flock, forget those of his compatriots, they do not see the fun of flying, only know its wings as a tool to find and compete for food. but occasionally he also remembered the past, although only a moment work.
One morning, he and his mentor who go out together, practice a series of closed wing snap rolls completed after the rest on the beach, he suddenly thought of the past.
million? my hometown, there is hh a good one in a million birds. Most of us learn too slowly. We almost identical from one world into another world, immediately forget where we came from, but also do not care where we want to go only think now living for the moment. you know do not know, and to see life than eating and drinking, fighting, or power is more important, we have how many world it? Joe, to go through thousands of the world, Jesus Christ too! and then go through BES to learn that there is the so-called to choose what school to another world. If you can not learn anything, then another, like the world will be like this world, you will encounter the same limitations and difficulties. sea breeze. point roll is difficult to learn, because the inverted half Jonathan had to head down, feet facing up to think back over the body, but also to bend down over the wings, but to bend it exactly in harmony with his instructor .
whipped out.
One evening, those who did not go to night flying gulls stood together on the sand, thinking. Jonathan the courage to come to the Elder Gull, to him, and said this gull will soon leave this world the.
He is more powerful, he can any one group than the gulls are flying fast, he learned the skills of other gull slowly bit by bit to understand it.
is not it? Where are we? Do not do such place as heaven? . him.
are limited, but perfection is infinite. Perfect speed, my son, is like that. for an instant. followed him and disappeared in less than a thousandth of seconds, he stood next to Jonathan shoulder. confusing. He forgot to ask about heaven. ; elders said, go nowhere. and those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection of the seagulls, but fast, go where. Remember, Jonathan, heaven is not the time nor the space, because time and space is so meaningless. Heaven is hh . Sen said, her eyes shining and a strange glory. as fast, to fly to anywhere, among a limited body, the body has a forty inch wingspan, its activities can be plotted on a chart it. The secret is to understand their nature, perfect as an unwritten number, it is beyond time and space, everywhere.
Jonathan asked, fiercely, day after day to go, from before dawn until after midnight. But despite his best efforts, but still remain in place, does not move the slightest.
Forest on the shore, eyes closed, focus, flash knew what Chiang had been telling the truth. the.
long to the water's edge, twin yellow suns turning overhead.
Jonathan was stunned. , a green sky and the two stars instead of the sun. Well, Joe, of course, will be successful. The gulls looked at Jonathan, golden eyes look in awe, because they saw he first stayed in that place wildly rooting for so long, then all of a sudden not see it anyway's.
their He stood to congratulate less than a minute. Sullivan said, , we can start working with time. understand the meaning of mercy and love. proud of the students, his ability to accept new ideas, like a streamlined feathered computer.
last one day, Chiang vanished. He first quietly, and we spoke, exhorting them to keep learning and practice, for all life, the perfect invisible principle, we must continue efforts to understand, to understand the deeper the better. He spoke, his feathers went brighter and brighter, last turned so brilliant, who can not look up to him.
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time goes by, how many times the meaning of the rich ah! he stood on the sand and fell to wondering: Will there if there was a seagull, is struggling to break through the limitations of its own, is trying to explore the significance of the flight, the flight not only to see small boat get some crumbs. to understand the nature of love, the more he wanted to return to earth. Despite his past life was lonely, he is a natural teacher, and he said the only way to love is to the truth he learned to tell a hope have the opportunity to understand the truth of seagulls.
thinking now at the speed of flight, but also willing to help others to learn, Sully. cast doubt on the idea of Jonathan.
abandoned. Do you have any reason to believe that, together with the past and the gulls in your old center, who will now listen to your words? the saying goes: fly high, far. earth in those seagulls all day on the ground, croaks, and you grab that I would win. They have thousands of miles away from heaven, can you say from where they stand, to show them heaven! Jon, they can not see their wings shoot it! stay In here! help those new gulls here, they have to fly so high, it can understand everything you said. the world to? do you have today? with those new to flying with the birds. They are very smart, and progress quickly. But soon he was doing it attacks. can not help but think: Maybe there will be so earthly one, two seagulls able to learn. If he is as abandoned river that day had come to him, that he now advances to the extent ah!
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