A
letter to Vishal Sikka
Dear
Vishal,
There
has got to be more to life than fighting for fish heads.
Instead
of drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there is reason to live!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of
excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! We can learn to
fly!
This
kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one’s self popular with
other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone,
making hundreds of low level glides, experimenting.
Why is
it that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he can prove
it for himself if he’d spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so
hard?
His
Sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory
of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.
~~~
We are
free to go where we wish and to be what we are.
You have
the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now – and nothing can
stand in your way!
The only
true law is that which leads to freedom.
The gull
sees farthest who flies highest.
~~~
AND
Keep
working on Love.
~~~
Above
are some quotes from the brilliant book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by supremely
talented author, Richard Bach. I thought these quotes will resonate with you.
A
Well-wisher,
Arun.
