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The birds and us!

As a child, I have always been fascinated by the birds. Well, I don't actually love love birds, but I found it very intriguing that these tiny little creatures had the power to migrate thousands of miles to save themselves, year after year. The remember the direction like it's in their DNA, passed on from generation to generation, along with this unbeatable survival instinct.

They also are born leaders. They instinctively know how to choose to lead and give up that position when they feel they are no more in that position and someone else is better suited for it at that time. 

I feel that we humans, though we claim to be the most superior of species, seem to lack this instinct, the instinct to be selfless when it comes to saving the community. We claim to ourselves that we are a social bunch. We even created a branch of study dedicated to the society - sociology. But are we really social?

Are we really like the birds and animals who lead and follow seamlessly according to the supposedly common good?

Sometimes I begin to wonder if we have actually understood who we are or are we so lost in the feeling of superiority over others that we have never really found out our true purpose on earth....are we so lost playing with our gadgets and inventions that we are losing the basic sense of existence - life, what makes us breathe and stay alive.

Mankind was always fascinated by the birds. As these little creatures could fly and sometimes sing sweet lullabies that made us sleep and sometimes worked like aphrodisiac. We have used them to deliver our messages. They have been one of us without we really knowing it. Or we chose not to acknowledge it, to protect the fragile handle with care ego of mankind.

I guess it's time for humanity to again spend time watching the birds. To see how they really behave as a society. How they work towards a common good and migrate to a state mentally, physically and emotionally, where our spirits are again free from trivia and we are able to focus on survival for the next millienia and more.

It's time to go back to the basics and as Enigma would sing - let's return to innocence!

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