You Were Born With Human Wings, So Why Wait To Start Flying?
By Dr. Scott Zarcinas | Author, Doctor, Wayfarer
In this article:
- Why we feel trapped.
- Why circumstance may not be the whole story.
- What awareness, imagination, and creativity make possible.
- What we may be waiting for before we allow ourselves to fly.
Born With Wings
Recently I’ve been reflecting on flying. Not in a plane. With human wings.
Human beings possess awareness, imagination, and creativity. When you stop and think about it, these are extraordinary capacities.
We can become aware of our own thinking. We can imagine futures that do not yet exist. We can create things that have never previously existed.
Yet despite possessing these capacities, many people experience life as though they are trapped by circumstance or grounded by fate.
A bird is born with wings and flies. A fish is born with fins and swims. Human beings are born with awareness, imagination, and creativity.
Yet many of us spend years feeling constrained by our circumstances, our history, our responsibilities, our beliefs about what is possible.
Why is that?
More Than Circumstance
The obvious answer is circumstance.
Life is not always easy. Financial pressures are real. Responsibilities are real. Health challenges are real. Relationships are real. Every life contains limitations of one form or another, and it would be naive to pretend otherwise.
Yet the more I sit with the question, the less convinced I am that circumstance alone explains it.
History is filled with people who created, imagined, and expressed something meaningful despite difficult circumstances. Some did so through poverty. Some through illness. Some through repeated rejection. Some through profound personal loss.
This does not mean circumstances do not matter. Clearly they do.
What it suggests, however, is that circumstance may not be the whole story.
What Are We Waiting For?
This is where the question becomes more interesting.
If awareness, imagination, and creativity are already present, why are they not utilised?
Many people seem to spend years waiting for something before they begin. They wait for confidence. They wait for certainty. They wait for permission. They wait until they feel ready. They wait until circumstances improve. They wait until they have more time, more money, more experience, or more reassurance.
Sometimes waiting is wise. Preparation has value. Reflection has value. Practical considerations matter.
Yet there comes a point where waiting stops looking like preparation and starts looking like postponement.
What interests me is that awareness, imagination, and creativity remain available throughout the entire process. They do not arrive after circumstances improve. They are already present.
Which raises another question:
If the capacities are already present, what exactly are we waiting for?
The Invisible Weight
Perhaps the answer lies in something less visible.
Over the years, I’ve become increasingly interested in the difference between workload and weight.
Workload is what we do. Weight is what we carry.
Two people can face identical circumstances and experience them very differently. One sees possibility where another sees limitation. One sees opportunity where another sees risk. One feels trapped while another feels free.
The circumstances may be similar. The experience is not.
This makes me wonder whether many of us are carrying invisible weight that has little to do with the present moment itself. Old conclusions. Old fears. Old identities. Old assumptions about what is possible, permissible, realistic, or safe.
Perhaps these are the things weighing us down, preventing us from flying.
The Wings We Forget We Have
The more I reflect on this, the more I suspect that awareness, imagination, and creativity are not achievements. They are not rewards earned after years of effort. They are capacities built into the human experience itself.
Awareness allows us to recognise what we are carrying. Imagination allows us to conceive of alternatives. Creativity allows us to express something new.
In a sense, they are the very capacities that make transformation possible. Which makes it all the more curious that we spend so much time focusing on the things we lack while overlooking the capacities we already possess.
So it begs the question:
If you already possess the capacity to become aware, imagine, and create, what is preventing you from using it?
Learning to Fly
I don’t think the answer is as simple as courage, nor do I think it is as simple as circumstance. If it were, the question would have been resolved long ago.
What interests me is that some people seem to discover these capacities and begin expressing them, while others spend years waiting for a future moment when conditions finally seem right.
Perhaps the difference is not found in the wings themselves but in whether we remember they are there.
The question I keep returning to is not whether human beings possess awareness, imagination, and creativity, because we clearly do.
The question is: why do we so often live as though we don’t?
And perhaps an even more interesting question follows.
If awareness, imagination, and creativity are our wings, what are we waiting for before we begin to fly?
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ABOUT DOCTORZED
Dr. Scott Adrian Zarcinas (aka DoctorZed) is a doctor, author, and Wayfarer. He helps people remove the invisible weight obscuring the way and keeping them stuck—so life can move again. Because functioning isn’t the same as being free.
“Freedom isn’t something you achieve. It’s what remains when the invisible weight drops.”
