This was always a flawed quote because even before such a realization, people still did novel things (and literally flew to new places), much the same as birds. And the answer is still the same for birds and humans, the constraint of resources. If you have enough then by all means, fly.
The point is for you to take a look at yourself and how you are currently spending your time, from the assumption that you could do something different.
People already do that. It also doesn't relate to the person you replied to, as I said in another comment, it's about an external source imprisoning you, not you imprisoning yourself.
It’s more so a realization that you have agency, choice, but have decided perhaps without much intention or thought, to remain in your status quo.
I don’t think it’s literally about flying. It’s about ignorantly complying to a status quo and how that itself is a decision even if you’ve made it unintentionally.
Again I think the resources it takes to fly being a limitation are not what it’s referring to. A bird just lives its life in an area and never really assesses if a flight to a far off land is possible, if resources would support their journey, or any of that. They just do what all the other birds are doing or of course what their instincts tell them to. We’ve ignored migration and birds that do travel great distances as not a part of this as it’s not a literal statement about flying!
1. I used "fly" metaphorically as branching out, and doing new things, one of which is the literal "flying" on a plane to travel to a new location for vacation, but my point was still about the metaphorical concept in general.
2. The quote about the bird staying in the same place is not relevant to what
ainiriand said because they are talking about being imprisoned from the outside, not by one's own self.
Ehhh, I feel like resource is still a big part of it. I like to travel, not above all else, and would like to do more of it, provided. But provided is not.
