Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1969 • 112 pages

Ratings151

Average rating3.6

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Ok, so, I went an looked to other reviews for inspiration for writing. And I realized a thing.
There are two, no, three kind of different reviews.
Reviews N 1, or how I decided to call them, “I'm to mainstream for this” are the one with people who read it and then went to the part of “this is stupid, it's for people who need support, it's just too rebel” and things like that. They face the part where the book is like those things in school who just repeat the same and they believe that with those words they're going to change the world. For this reviews, it's not that you're bad or things like that, it's just that you go to negative on it. I mean, the book is kind of designed for being like that, to help, to help people realize what they can do. So, chill, enjoy!
Reviews N 2, or the way I called them “I just saw THE thing and my life is not the same”, are the ones who give this book their heart and soul. This people probably felt a lot better after reading it, in which case is the book porpoise. But they go a little to deep in the prayers for the book. And it's ok, everyone obsesses or gets changed by something. But it's funny to see the contrast between this reviews and the first one.
Reviews N 3, the “reviewers in the middle”, are the ones who go “I like this” and that's it or “Nice message” Period. They fill the reviews. There's always this kind of reviewers.

As for me, I think I go to the second kind with a touch of the first one.
When I finished the book, the first thing my mom told me was “what did you learn about it”. This was my answer

I think that the book tries to tell you that you can do whatever-WHATEVER-you want. All the things you want, you can do it, and the only barrier holding you there is yourself. Yourself, fears, Sadness, courage, bravery, happiness included. And even sometimes, the problem is that the people who restrain themselves, also restrain everybody else, and they do it thinking they have the power to do it. But they don't. They don't get to decide, you get to decided. It's your body, your mind, your soul, your ideas and, in this case, your wings. No one can't decide for you about yourself and neither do you to the rest.

January 1, 2013