The Airportline: Observations

One and a half years ago in a Short stories work shop. Choose a picture from a book with animals and write about it. I chose one of a cat flying into the unknown. A bit like this picture. Then we got ten minutes to write something. I remember that a Ukrainian artist who wanted to write a children's book liked what I wrote. This is how it turned out:

It represents movement, a forward motion in life. It’s about taking a chance and jumping into something unknown. It’s fun, elegant and natural. Standing still is missing out on everything that is moving, and since life is a movement, an organic evolution, its life you’re missing. A cost too great to bear, so you throw yourself out into something that is unknown and you might land on something unpleasant but it’s ok. It is what you learn from the movement that gives life meaning. Just as breathing is a movement of air, the physical movement of yourself is life: you stop either of them and it’s not only a stop of motion, it is a stop of life. Leaving is also entering and there is no use in looking back when life is happening in front of you. And even though there is knowledge in history, there is life in the future, and I choose life everyday of the week. Leave the motionless people behind, the once that are too afraid to let life shake them up. I have no time for them, as I move forward, they stand still.