Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Is the joy of the flight worth the fall?

Comments

[miriyasterling.livejournal.com]

My instant response would have been yes... before I realized that I fall down a lot. Of course if one doesn't though than life tends to be boring.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Do you think that the harder the fall, the longer the recovery?

[burnedfeather.livejournal.com]

As long as you can get back up. Once I've experienced everything else... then the final flight will be worth the final fall. I just don't ever see myself filled with that many experiences where I can someday say I've done it all. Time will tell...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Do you think you learn more from every fall?

[wiltinwickwitch.livejournal.com]

oh yes
every time
and I have the scars to prove it!
love and blessed be
xxx

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

But do the scars make you aim lower each time?

First Response

[epiphany.livejournal.com]

My knee jerk response was, "Always!"

But on further thought, why does a flight have to end with a fall? Why can't ya just plan for a safe flight and a happy landing?

Re: First Response

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

If you learn from the falls, you don't have to fall again, right?

[infinitywhisper.livejournal.com]

No. It's idiocy. I think some call it living dangerously with a death wish.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Don't you think you can fly without falling?

[red-bull.livejournal.com]

an interesting response Beth.... my instinctive reply would have been 'hell yes' ..... *hugggggggggggggs*

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Everything has to come to an end some time. Do you want it to end on your terms or theirs?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Always on your own terms :)

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Flight is postponed falling, only with greater lessening of the crash. so, yes.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

So from falling in the past, you learn how to fall gently?

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

yes!

...you can always get up... if you don't really fly and fall...then...pray you don't fall...:P

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Isn't it better to learn from the fall, rather than just pray?

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

If you don't fly, you'll never have a chance of reaching your fullest potential.  Falling's only bad if you hit the ground and learn nothing from the experience.

[delphaicdragon.livejournal.com]

Well said. :)

[amberpixiewolf.livejournal.com]

yes.......even if it kills me in the process. (which i have no doubt it will someday.....ooopsie.)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

What lessons do you learn from the fall?

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

My Icarian heart says yes, always. Burn the candle at both ends, Ah my foes and oh my friends, and all that sort of thing.

My more sensible Daedalan mind says no, never. Everyday life, with its books, its embraces, its cups of tea, is too precious to risk on one moment of ecstatic flight.

I imagine the correct answer is somewhere in between.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I would say that learning from the fall, you can fly forever :)

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

my gut says maybe.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I would say there is more to be learned from falling, than there is from flying...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Well said!

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. But the fall is a bitch, and the landing... YOW!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yow!

But after learning from the fall, you can fly forever :)

[sideshowmel.livejournal.com]

that is something you would have needed to ask of icarus

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I missed that opportunity ;)

[soulview.livejournal.com]

Who says you have to fall?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Perfect answer :D