You seem lost in thought..and I feel like I am interrupting you..forgive me. I know so little about you. I just read on A-Z Animals that you are incredible at climbing trees, and that in doing so.. you can see any incoming prey or danger. You are also a fantastic swimmer!!
I also learned that there are 30 different sub species of your family and that most are considered to be endangered or critically endangered, with some on the verge of extinction. This news breaks my heart. I can't imagine how it must feel to live each day with that reality! For me as a human it would be like facing death on a daily basis.. I'm not sure I could handle that!
With so little knowledge of you on my part you have every reason not to want to converse with me. I am late in coming to know you and the rest of our family in the natural world but I enter into this conversation with the deepest respect for you. I truly would like to hear what you would say to me...if you wish.
Dear Assunta,
A little knowledge can go a long way and I appreciate your efforts to get to know me and my family. Your sharing our conversation with other humans could perhaps limit the mass extinction that my family faces.
It is not easy to walk each day with the realization that not only could it be my last day but the last for my entire family.
To have been given the gift of life and then to have it taken away through no act of ones own is very hard to deal with; and yes.. you can sense some anger in me for the lack of respect and willingness to work with our family and all the families of the natural world, that humans display.
No one likes to feel devalued or unwanted, or to be treated like an object strictly for your enjoyment. Remember when you saw the picture of Giraffe in the small square enclosure of a zoo? You wondered what he/she might be feeling and if he/she would like to be free of the fenced in space?
Why does Giraffe have no say in how he/she lives life? You humans speak strongly about rights and rights are valuable. Why is it therefore, that we of the natural world, young and old, have no rights? Any rights that we might seem to have are dictated by the needs of humans.
I want to live... I want my family to live.. to grow up and become the fullness of themselves. Why does that not seem to matter? Would it not be to the good of all of us, to recognize our dependence on one another?
There is a balance that needs to be kept if life is to thrive, and each of us in being who we are contribute to maintaining that balance!
How often have you said..Mother Earth does not need humans to survive.. She will make the changes needed for growth and healing. It is the human family that will not survive with out Mother Earth!! Sadly and realistically, my family and your human family are endangered!!
As I said, I want to live and I want my family to not only live but to thrive! Is that not what you want as well?
Together, with mutual respect and mutual rights to life, we can share our gifts and in so doing create the healing balance of life that will bring wholeness to All Our Relations!
Dear Leopard,
Thank you for your honesty and your wisdom. This sharing has touched me deeply. I pray that we humans will not only hear you but act to honor your rights and the rights of all our sisters and brothers in the natural world.
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