o! for a horse with wings!

20 Oct

One thought has been heavily on my mind for the past few weeks.

I want to fly.

I look up at the sky and want to take one huge leap and soar…

When I’m on a motorbike, I close my eyes and imagine myself a thousand feet in the air, the wind rushing by my face…

At night, I lie back on the grass and look at the stars, and wonder what it would be like to look down at the earth from the sky…

My mind has been working overtime to figure out how to fly, even for the briefest of moments, to just float in the air…

Icarus, Pegasus, and Hermes fill my dreams, and haunt me in my waking moments.

How does one fulfil a yearning this strong?

Offtopic:

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
-Unknown (attributed to Leonardo da Vinci

O! for a horse with wings!
-William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

16 Responses to “o! for a horse with wings!”

  1. Carlo 20. Oct, 2008 at 5:31 pm #

    Go to Soroti Flying School.

  2. The Emrys 20. Oct, 2008 at 5:40 pm #

    alternatively get a chair and tie as many balloons as possible to it, might work :D

  3. Edward Matovu 20. Oct, 2008 at 6:04 pm #

    Board an aeroplane.

    British Airways. :)

  4. Teti 21. Oct, 2008 at 7:09 am #

    Why a horse?
    Why not wings upon ye own back?

  5. petesmama 21. Oct, 2008 at 7:54 am #

    Get something pretty – like a pink unicorn!

  6. Mr. B2B... 21. Oct, 2008 at 8:34 am #

    dawg
    i know a certain tree that will surely make you high enuff to fly
    Hehehehehe

    ok, that was lame, but fi you are serious!!

    i know some guy who can organise for you a bunjee-jump, or better still a hand-gliding session…

    hola

  7. Sybella 21. Oct, 2008 at 9:26 am #

    hmmm… once upon a time, i had this yearning. got over it after a while but that is besides the point…

    the hand gliding sounds good… can it be done here in Ug Mr.B2B? maybe parachuting after jumping off a plane or is that the same as the gliding…

  8. Solomon King 21. Oct, 2008 at 10:25 am #

    LOL. It’s amazing how everyone thinks I want to be IN something that flies. Nope, I want to fly.

    @Carlo, nope, I know I joint in Ebbs that will set me back 200k for an hour of flying.

    @Emrys… dude… That was Peter’s Toybox stuff.

    @Edward… been there, done that, not what I’m looking for.

    @Teti, the horse was a metaphor, I’d much rather be Icarus

    @Mama pete, Unicorns? for real?

    @B2B, DUDE!! Please tell me you’re serious about hang gliding????? PLEASE!

    @Sybella, Some yearnings never leave, they simply get repressed.

  9. Emi's 21. Oct, 2008 at 12:05 pm #

    B2B, you have some seriously contacts!!

    Solo if your serious about flying, I over heard while in a taxi that passed those bu kids that usually hang around shop rite (near the clock tower) that the reason why the kept on fiercely sniffing at their shirt sleeves and sometime a ka mineral water bottle is the flying magic they have poured over it. not sure if this bees what your looking for but I swear I saw them “flying” and all their problems seamed accomplished.
    I still think it was aviation fuel they had but I’d rob one of them just to see if you’ll really fly. tell us if you go ahead

  10. lulu 22. Oct, 2008 at 8:46 am #

    hahaha flying school, listen to an album called theory of flight

  11. eddsla 22. Oct, 2008 at 10:57 am #

    bunjee-jump? dude don’t, mrb doesn’t like u iknow tht nw.

  12. Solomon King 22. Oct, 2008 at 1:43 pm #

    @Emi’s, no thanks, lol, I don’t want to get THAT high.

    @lulu, album by??

    @eddsla, I am so going bungee jumping.

  13. smelling the coffee 31. Oct, 2008 at 1:27 pm #

    i know the feeling. oh how i know!

  14. acaiberry 02. Jan, 2009 at 11:47 am #

    HOlla
    How’s it going guys?
    I have a question thats been in my head for a while.. What is acai berry?
    I keep seeing commercials on tv and banners on the internet so im finally starting to get interested.
    I guess its some fruit that is very healthy for you and your skin?
    I wouldnt mind losing a few pounds so i kinda want to buy acai berry .. so if any
    of you know any cheap places that would be great!
    I also saw it was featured on OPRAH so maybe there is some truth to this lol.

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