So I’m back to school and it’s been quite a stretch. It immerses the teachers in the groundbreaking content and the material is phenomenal. Something that is disturbing is all animals are quite clear on their purpose except humans. Does this sound sensational? Animals learn early why they exist and embody their purpose. Meanwhile, many humans die without knowing why they were here. Animals in their natural habitat do not exterminate each other. They co-exist because some need the others for food. A lion will normally not indiscriminately kill. Looking at the smallest to the largest animals they have their place and function that positively contributes to the ecosystem. Humans exercise free reign at the expense of this. The world once covered with varied flora and fauna now records many of the same becoming endangered or even extinct. We have man to thank for this. What enables animals to co-exist without unnecessary activities like we see with humans? Animals are content with what is available today. Humans want to store all the food if possible for later. This may mean depriving others. Animals live as if there’s more than enough because what is available naturally regenerates. Humans behave like the earth’s resources are scarce and hoard what they have. This makes it look like they are scarce indeed. Animals move freely in their natural habitat and access the various resources available as they move around, all this for free. Humans create barriers to limit such movement to make it seem as if the resources are scarce. This means trade is inevitable. The cunning human takes advantage of the naïve one, interestingly in the animal kingdom we see symbiotic relationships as opposed to exploitative ones. Animals have a wide range of living conditions and food options. Carnivores eat varied types of meat while herbivores eat different plants and this keeps changing as they move from one location to another. Game meat is delicious because of the animals diverse diet. In comparison humans eat very little variety, this is nutritionally limiting for the body. For decades rural to urban migration has seen more humans move to cities reducing access to the diverse infrastructure available in the rural areas. It may seem as if development has increased the options available to humans but nothing is further from the truth. Humans due to where most now live have no access to the resources available in a concrete jungle unless they paid for access. I may not know the stress levels of animals in the wild but it stresses humans to live in the city. Humans have boxed themselves in and we wonder why we don’t know our purpose. Humans that step out of the box seem like they are strange once they expand their mental and social horizons. They enjoy diverse materials and discover almost cost free means of accessing them. Does the term freedom come to mind? Imagine a life with no debt and freedom to access resources when necessary. That is the environment that promotes certain wonderful qualities in one’s mind. To make it this still requires effort, intellect, resilience, relationships, flexibility, intuition, courage, foresight, hindsight, curiosity, patience and all other qualities that enable animals to stay awake to their constantly changing environment in order for them not only to survive but to thrive. That there are such diverse living things means humans may have much in common, but a good deal may only thrive in an environment similar to the natural habitat in which we find animals. Does such an environment exist?
It is time 