It’s easy to wake up as a human and forget just how human I am. This morning, I’m wondering what makes a squirrel a rodent and me a human. So here are some thoughts.
I can think beyond my current thoughts and imagine thoughts that cannot be enacted currently. Most squirrels cannot look at a bird and go wow, I would like to fly someday. Now I cannot prove this of course, but my gut tells me I’m correct. Just watch squirrels sometime. They really don’t look up very much. They don’t sit still long enough to think about birds. Birds like Hawks will eat them. Birds don’t know anything about a good Walnut or Hickory nut and where to find them and how to store them in the ground.
No, any self respecting squirrel is not thinking about flying around like a bird, with the possible exception of so called flying squirrels. Now they might poke a bit of a hole in my theory, right? NA, I still don’t think so.
Squirrels of all kinds seem to act like squirrels and will always be squirrels.
Now humans on the other hand have the ability to shift their shape and thinking. Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of flying and as far as I know, never took to the sky. But how he must have thought about it. And look, now we actually fly through the air.
Humans often think of things that are seemingly impossible and then set out to achieve such things. And we talk about them or have conversations that go on and on, sometimes for many years before we enact those ideas.
Every other species seems to exist, quite contentedly it seems. Humans have to go beyond daily existence. There is always something more.
Anyhow, I woke up with this thought this morning. I’ll try to enjoy my human characteristics today by just being a human.