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    FOYL: Flight of Your Life
    FOYL: Flight of Your Life
    FOYL: Flight of Your Life
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    FOYL: Flight of Your Life

    By Ian Mitchell

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    Take a creative journey into self discovery, as you are taught by the Holy Spirit and Jesus to deal with the baggage you pick up along life's journey. During this book you will be entering a society similar to ours, only the act of self discovery is formalized by an organization known as FOYL (Flight of Your Life). Generations of young people have embarked on this journey, where FOYL sends them to distant lands to discover their talents, abilities and futures. However little do you know that yours will not be like everyone else's, as an encounter with a mysterious man name Thomas and his young friend Jesse completely alter the course of your Flight and the rest of your life.

    No matter your age, it is never to late to discover who you are.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781543907391
    FOYL: Flight of Your Life
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    Ian Mitchell

    Ian Mitchell is the author of Isles of the North (2004) and Isles of the West. He lived for twelve years in Moscow, where he researched his book, Russia and the Rule of Law. He now lives in Campbeltown where he also makes films about books he has read in the course of his research.

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      FOYL - Ian Mitchell

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      The Flight of Your Life

      Today is not like any other day. This is your day to take your Flight. You know, the Flight that everyone is destined to take to determine their future . . . their purpose . . . their direction. This Flight is the Flight of Your Life, with promises of a bright future, success, passions, and challenges. You are excited about it, but also nervous about what the Flight itself entails. Leading up to this event, you seek insight and counsel from those who have taken it before you. It seems like all young people live for this one moment in their life. Books, movies, and entire schools are built around what is now known as the ‘Flight’. Every culture around the globe participates in it, to figure out who they will be. You aren’t sure exactly how the Flight got started, but you did study in school that it extends all the way back to the beginning of recorded history. Native Americans would send their youth into the forest with no end date to become a man. In the east, parents would send their children to live in the mountains with the monks. In this modern era, the ease of travel has opened up possibilities on a global scale and across continents. Because of this, the most common way to begin an individual Flight is through a traditional airport-like construct, known as the Port. For some, that initial Flight sends them around world: to distant lands or to small islands. Others are thrust immediately into business or politics, through amazing experiences shadowing some of the most powerful people in the world. A few are placed into the public eye and others are chosen for more simple things. Regardless, this is the moment when you get to figure out who you are. This is the journey you have been planning for, dreaming about, and looking forward to for years, as every child does, has finally arrived.

      It has not always been clear who actually makes the decisions about where you go. All you know is that there is an international agency known as the Flight of Your Life (FOYL). Just weeks before your chosen Flight date, FOYL sends you an itinerary, which is very basic and only states when and to what Port you are to report to. Your job is to show up and be ready for anything. All other arrangements are, well, arranged by FOYL. This is true for all young people around the world.

      Now, you can choose to ignore your itinerary, which happens more often than you would think. If you decide not to follow it, then you just keep doing what you had done before, figuring out life without the benefit of added direction. It does seem like the ones who don’t go on the Flight are a little more aimless in life. They still can be successful, but they just appear to be less happy. That may be your opinion, however. After all, you are the fifth generation of your family to go on the Flight.

      It was a big deal when you received the letter from FOYL. You have since read the letter more than a hundred times. As expected it doesn’t say much, just the day and time that you needed to report to the Port. Based on how many times you read and reread that one-page letter, you would have thought it gave explicit instructions about your Flight, but at this point, you know nothing. It didn’t stop you, though, you started packing your limited belongings the day you received that letter, placing them carefully in your old green duffel bag. It seems daily that you review each item you put into that bag to ensure that you don’t leave anything important behind. Why the harmonica? You might not even get to play it, as a lot of people (like your mom) don’t like the way it sounds. You can’t explain it, though; for some reason, you fell in love with that sound when you were less than ten years old. Why bring that old faded t-shirt? Well, because it’s your favorite. Your mom has tried to throw it away fifty times, but you always seem to save it from its eventual resting place in the trash. You have worn it on all occasions, at church, at school, and even under your prom tuxedo . . . it is just so . . .

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