Showing posts with label Ray Bradbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Bradbury. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

On the topic of being able to fly

It was supposedly Ray Bradbury, who once said that
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
It reminds me of an incident I was involved in recently, when a person present felt that the initiative we had started out to set the rules for could be compared to cutting the branch on which we were sitting.
As it happened, I did not quite share the point of view, which led me to the other extreme, stating that "Well, let's see. I do not think that we are cutting our own branch. But if we are - who knows, maybe we'll find that we can fly?"
The outcome is still undecided, as the points of view unchanged. Until the moment when at high speed I simply hit the ground, I am in the - for me quite uncharacteristical - situation that I am foolhardily convinced that I'm right.
(Translated from Noget om at kunne flyve, originally posted June 26, 2016)