Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.