ryanmuskal
Who? Who.
It's Tuesday the 28th at Flytrap Downs, and the UNCW men's rugby team practice, trying their best to be the fittest team in the league. Some of the Cape Fear men's team old fellas are hanging around laughing and talking about their lives, utilizing this time to relax from the daily grind of work and yell at the young guys. Two dogs trample around, playing and running carefree. At the far end of the field in the tryzone are the posts. A few of us notice something a top the post. One lonely owl. What is she doing there? Owls are nocturnal, shouldn't she be asleep or hiding for a few more hours? Or does she find comfort in the setting sun just as we do? There's no way to know. Maybe this beautiful bird is actually a ferocious predator, and she chooses this post as the most optimal location to pounce on unassuming prey, trying her best to survive. If that's the case, then she is no different from our team. Both are hungry for meat. Both work hard to be the most dominant organism they can be. Both just want to live and be free. So often we see ourselves as distant to our fellow animals, but here, in this moment, I realize we are truly one in nature.
Who? Who.
It's Tuesday the 28th at Flytrap Downs, and the UNCW men's rugby team practice, trying their best to be the fittest team in the league. Some of the Cape Fear men's team old fellas are hanging around laughing and talking about their lives, utilizing this time to relax from the daily grind of work and yell at the young guys. Two dogs trample around, playing and running carefree. At the far end of the field in the tryzone are the posts. A few of us notice something a top the post. One lonely owl. What is she doing there? Owls are nocturnal, shouldn't she be asleep or hiding for a few more hours? Or does she find comfort in the setting sun just as we do? There's no way to know. Maybe this beautiful bird is actually a ferocious predator, and she chooses this post as the most optimal location to pounce on unassuming prey, trying her best to survive. If that's the case, then she is no different from our team. Both are hungry for meat. Both work hard to be the most dominant organism they can be. Both just want to live and be free. So often we see ourselves as distant to our fellow animals, but here, in this moment, I realize we are truly one in nature.