Why The Pathway To Our Freedom Often Scares Us?

Piyush Kamal🎖
4 min readFeb 6, 2019

The sight of a pigeon normally excites everyone, but if I had to tell you, the creature was sighted inside an aircraft cabin while making an early morning landing, then I guess it does qualify as a rare event extracting childlike enthusiasm from each of us.

For the next few minutes, all I could manage to do was just witness him vigorously trying to find its way out of the cabin while he fluttered across the length of the aircraft cabin. Since he was unable to find his way out of the cabin his helplessness was evident in the intensity of his struggle.

Had the pigeon just stopped for a moment and noticed that the exit door was wide open for him to make an escape to his freedom, I guess it would have been easier on him. Surprisingly, after a couple of minutes, the pigeon seemed to have settled into the comfort of his own struggle by keeping himself busy.

I couldn’t help but watch it helplessly fly from one end of the cabin to another while getting stuck himself in some open overhead stowing space and start the struggle all over again.

After a point, it was getting so frustrated that I just wanted to get up and show that helpless creature the way out. However, there were a couple of issues that couldn’t be ignored here. First, there is no way the pigeon could see me and appreciate my…

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Piyush Kamal🎖

Published Author Who Loves to Play at the Intersection of Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, & Philosophy — Sharing the Slice of Wisdom Not on Paper but Screen