What’s a thing you were completely obsessed with as a kid?
Flying. I was so sure I was going to figure out how to make people fly like Superman someday.
I wanted it so badly for myself. I want it so badly for everyone; to get off the ground, to see as the birds see, feel what they feel. My favorite rare dreams are of flying.
Maybe it was a metaphor. I just had a lengthy talk with Purpose about my core values, and the one that “feels most like oxygen” is freedom. All my other top values – integrity, courage, benevolence, intellectual curiosity, justice, growth – all serve freedom.
The paradox is that in order to fly in a realistic way, I have to have discipline. I’m sure flying the way birds do also involves paradox, but when I think of flying I think of floating the way astronauts do in zero gravity.
Do we need gravity to fly here on earth? If we didn’t have gravity we wouldn’t be so desperate to resist it. This feels like one of those paradoxes I don’t like to engage with, like the one about how “life’s beauty is inseparable from its fragility.” I hate that one, and I will never be able to escape it because it’s true.
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