whoa slow down there, homie

"In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?"
I just gotta say: Seal really paints my wagon.
It was maybe 5 years ago that I was working at a bagel shop. I remember having a conversation with a customer who compared Seal to Rumi. The idea had not previously occurred to me and I would not go so far with my admiration, but that line about flying seems to get to the point of it all. And, he's engaged to Heidi Klum.
Wanting to fly appeals to me as a fundamental desire anyone who asks questions will innately entertain. I feel like there are people who innovate (by being true to themselves and as honest as possible) and then there are imitators (those who can only find it within their power to copy other people, in an effort to safely eat, sleep, work and die.).
Just look at congressmen. When they live such an unmitigated, fundamentalist bipartisan existance, not only do they become entirely predictable, but they lose their usefulness to humanity because they relegate themselves to oozing only dogma, in the form of thoughts and actions acceptable and profitable to the abstractions of bureaucracies. It's kind of what happens to most humans that take on the role of police: Because it's difficult not to take things personally when you're doing your job (whatever that is), "officers of the law" too often relinquish their humanness up to the overweight muses of robotic patriotism. Where then does that get us? Racism, sexism, ageism, etc. -all in the name of public safety, all protected and shrouded beneath auspices of social acceptance and collective betterment.
We all like to feel strong and capable. When that strength is nearly only visible to us in the form of physical monstrosity and aggression, well, sometimes it's easier to shut up and follow the herd, right?