Trapezes and Flying

“Why do you want to go trapezing?”

“Because I want to fly.”

“But isn’t flying in an airplane closer to flying than trapezing? Then you’re in the clouds above everyone else.”

“When you are trapezing you are also above everyone else. But when you are trapezing you are not hindered by seats that are too small and neighbors that are too large.”


When flying in an airplane, I always choose the window seat. Though I may be blocked in from both sides – a person to one side and a hard unyielding wall on the other – making getting up to use the restroom rather inconvenient, the sights from the window seat make up for it.

On the occasions when the sun is setting, one is able to see the amazing views of the vast horizon slowly changing colors with the setting sun. The rosy peaked clouds over the vast terrain with its fluffy simplicity. Today the clouds bear no ill will nor suggestions of impending rain, but playfully dot the ocean. The calm waters of the Pacific change from a deep indigo blue to a rosy purple as it stretches out to meet the rosy horizon.

Man’s dream has always been to break constraints and go above and beyond.

To fly.

To break free from the two-dimensional and to rise above others.

To be closer to God.

To reach the stars.




To reach the heavens.