The Bush

Chobe National Park, Botswana, Africa ©

December 2019

I entered the bush for some days and forgot the human world. He [the lion] approached me and was within five feet, looking at me intently. I thought he would pounce and my body froze. Then, suddenly my instincts came back after dormancy [from my artificial human life], forcing me to edge and look away. He won back the 'power' and cockily asserted his King status in his walk away from me, making me realize I am just a feeble human. Perhaps, I have human cognition but, severely lack speed, mobility, and strength.-Defenseless to only bow down to the King in a fear-induced hail. It was beautifully terrifying. Isn't the whole human experience beautiful and terrifying simultaneously anyway?

We, humans are part of the animal life cycle as much as the animals in the wild, despite living in what we have constructed as the top human cities/civilizations in the world. Mortality is the end of the life cycle and the beginning of the new one; It's part of our very being. How will you choose to live your life cycle?—Proliferation? Survival of the fittest-How are your genes? or Social gatherings?