Animals:

Really that what we all are, just animals. Lately I have been watching the Big Cat diaries on the Animal planet. It’s surprising how personality traits can be seen in the cats that many of us humans instinctively possess. For example, the cheetah – they hunt during the hottest part of the day so the heat from the earth can help hide them to their prey. In order to do this they have to calculate every move, for if they spring too early they won’t have enough energy to catch what they are chasing.

In humans you don’t see too many cheetahs, more and more we see boars or hyenas who like to pick on others and scavenge for their food, taking the easy route. I mean really, why hunt during the hottest freaking part of the day, other than the fact that it frees your time up to hit the cheetah clubs and cruise for cheetah chicks. Another by-product is that some of the other carnivores in the African terrain tend to cool down and you don’t have to share your food. So sometimes tings that dont make sense have other advantages we dont readily think of.

I like to think that maybe I am sort of a cheetah, I have calculated most of my moves to great detail, I tend to do things in the crazy times of the day and my decisions are somewhat fast. Really I find it interesting that animals have the basics down and they seem to enjoy daily life. We humans have gizmos, gadgets and things that will do stuff for us and yet we seem to get farther and farther away from true happiness. Will we ever learn? Probably not – but I can try.