That’s what I tell my fish when I get home from work!
It’s a shame to be human these days when so much is expected of us. We have to go through life pretending to be superior as a species when all we are is just food for thought.
If I was a fish, I wouldn’t consider anything a human had to say! I would just swim and eat and sleep when the light turns out. If only I could just be a fish, letting my owner take care of me till my short little life is over. Nothing more would be expected of me other than to just swim and eat and look pretty for everyone.. A far better existence than this one. All that’s missing is the margaritas with the little umbrellas… That and free wifi!
I decided to come home early today, i just couldnt handle being at work anymore.
I spent half the day yesterday making sure my fish tank was spotless and fixed up nice with new rocks and tank equipment. I couldn’t take my attention away from it once I was done, it looked so perfect and the fish were sooo happy!
I can lose myself very easily, just sitting and watching the fish live their simple little lives.
😫I just want to be a fucking fish!!!
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Yeah they do have it pretty easy….them and most dogs and cats….If I could choose an animal to be though?….I’d be an eagle….adult eagles have no natural predators and they are protected by law…. and they just look….so…fucking….bad ass!….oh why couldn’t I just be a fucking eagle!….
All I know is I’m just so fucking sick of being human, as you are I know.
As you are too..I meant
I wonder why the fuck we got sooo “lucky” to be humans?….like out of all the trillions of animals that ever existed that we could have been we just had to end up as fucking human….hell a fucking roach is better….a ladybug an ant…. a frog… rabbit….even a fucking rat….but no……human….I’ll take non human for 200 alex!
And that’s the daily double, folks! 😉
For me, that’s the most intriguing question that exists: why is my consciousness mine? Why is my awareness connected to this body, instead of a different one? What is it about my physical materials, that caused *my* consciousness to manifest, rather than that of someone else? Why am i “me?” Why isn’t someone else “me?”
Why am i here, rather than there?
Why am i not you?
Why are you not me?
And sometimes i wonder if maybe everyone (even the other animals) really is just another iteration of the same universal consciousness, but manifested in different ways, due to each variation in the genes, and all we experience since conception, unto this moment.
Maybe we’re all the same entity… existing individually, simultaneously, with all other living iterations of itself.
All I know is that it fucking sucks to be human..on all accounts.
It’s like being knocked down after being brutally dominated in a boxing match taking place in the mud.. Face down in the thick smelly mud, I have to lift this bag of meat and bones up and stand for another round. Another round of being human!
*DING DING*
If I was a bird, I would have liked to have been an eagle; if a land animal, a tiger, and if a sea-creature, a dolphin.
Well whatever it may be it could have skipped over me….Why am I even here at all?…. why couldn’t some other consciousness be in control of this body….like one of the kids in a terminal section of a hospital….I’d trade places with them in a jiffy…..I wonder if they ever develop the technology to perform brain transplants would it transplant our unique consciousness with it?
All of which have suffered and still suffer because of humans!
Lets face it people.. We have the animal kingdom by its collective balls, even they probly think of us and go.. “Ouch..damn! Really!?”
I would so be a walrus, aside from the point that they are awesome, when they are full grown they don’t need to worry about a single thing and don’t have any enemies. Also they are really awesome
Maybe it can’t skip over you. Maybe that source must necessarily occupy all viable and potentially sentient beings… maybe even non-sentient beings, like plants (some would argue this).
Maybe this idea is compatible with reincarnation… since it would have to be, in order for the same source entity to manifest as consciousness in every living being.
Maybe life’s purpose is to manifest a way of unlocking our potential of utilizing that source, and establishing some sort of conduit for it to easily flow in and out of this realm. Maybe “life” results from that source injecting itself into this realm.
Or maybe i’m just being metaphysically fantastical.
@RT30 lol yup….I can’t stand the audacity of zoo’s ….like ***** why don’t they go into a cage with 10-15 other humans and be on display for animals and see how it feels….I’m surprised PETA doesn’t speak out against that….aquariums are fine I just think zoo’s are stupid….I’m pretty sure no lion wants to be treated as a fucking dog….It can’t hunt….can’t establish its own territory….and its confined to a damn cage with meat bags gawking in awe at it
If I had my way I’d be any kind of microscopic animal that has the simplest life you can imagine, on some far off region of the world nobody goes to, so I may go through life unnoticed and unbothered! Lets just say every kind of microscopic form of life gets completely wasted by living off of their preference of sustenance (cause why not? Right!?) who the fuck wouldn’t want to be an insignificant micro organism!?
Well shit….fuck man….. I guess it doesn’t matter anyway….I’m here now so the only way out is to get a refund on life…..
If I am reincarnated in any form….please let me be an eagle….to soar the skies for all my eagle-riffic life would be nothing but bliss
Honestly.. I’m about to blow all my money at the zoos and aquariums cuz those are the only places where all my problems mean nothing..I can lose myself there..
And it’s sooooo frustrating I can’t just do that
All I want to do is sit and watch my fish swim around but I have human responsibilities I must uphold!
Somebody shoot me please!!
I’ll shoot you…..only if you shoot me in the head first…..that’s the only acceptable deal!
well, according to buddhists or hindus, if you do enough bad karmas in this life, you may get the opportunity to be “downgraded” into animal realm in next reincarnation. but not as much to get into hell.
oh i guess it didn’t come out right. my english 🙁 where’s the edit button?
I would want to be a bonobo. They are peaceful and have sex all of the time. It really sucks to be a human, with all of those responsibilities and that drive to dominate. Nonetheless, I would also like to be a diatom. Those things are so pretty, and they are often unicellular, which means no pain!
You’d like being plankton? spongebob has convinced me that plankton never win….
It’s just something about having the natural ability to fly that entrances me
I would not want to be evolved enough to feel pain, but if I had to be, I would be a bonobo. Some organisms have it lucky. Birds are nice, as they can poop on anyone’s car and likely get away with it.
I wouldn’t want to leave my existence options open to being any creature capable of being hunted or eaten!
Me neither bonobos are endangered because they are being hunted to extinction ….I want to be at the top of the food chain and protected by law….if not an eagle then some animal that is top predator and not hunter….
I think of this all the time when I look at my dog. His only worry is being left alone a few hours a day, and he cries and thinks he has it bad. If he had any idea…
Maaaan. You’ve said it. I often think the same think about my cats. Our cats are babied here, so you really never experience any adversity as they are indoor cats. I wanna live that way. The expectation aspect of your essay is particularly compelling to me. That’s one thing I always get depressed about, simply because I feel so in competent at everything I do.
I think there should be an option to opt out as a functioning member of society and still maintain some sort of rights as a person. What if there was a choice to be some rich persons pet. Like having a human as a pet would be a reflection of status, or something like that. What would life be like then, to not have to work and pay taxes but to be considered an animal under law? ….idk…I’m high!
“rich persons pet”…..you mean like a slave?…..ehhh I think I’d pass on that….I mean if you are their pet….technically you are their property and they can do whatever they want with you………can you at any time stop being a pet if you don’t want to? if not then you’re fucked…….most rich people that owned a human would undoubtedly develop a “god” complex….they’d think they were some ultra superior being because they have a human pet….not a butler….not a maid….but a human pet….