From 3580e70fb0ea61a47c01b49aa7b87783bf54cf11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Volpeon Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 22:39:29 +0100 Subject: Update --- content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md') diff --git a/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md b/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md index 750932a..3727d90 100644 --- a/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md +++ b/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md @@ -1,28 +1,29 @@ --- -title: I Am Not a Fox -unlisted: true +title: I Am Not a Fox +last_update: 2021-12-03 +unlisted: true --- As a child, I wanted to be a bird. I had watched Disney's *The Sword in the Stone*, an animated film set in medieval England about an orphan called Arthur who meets Merlin, a wizard. Merlin decides to become Arthur's tutor and teaches him various lessons in a quite unconventional way -- by turning him into a fish, a squirrel, and eventually a sparrow. The idea of being an animal, and specially a bird, was incredibly fascinating to me. -How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? +How would it feel to have such a completely different body? To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? +I was 6 years old at that time and to this day, the desire to be an animal never left me alone again. + +As I got older, it became clear to me that my experience was far from usual. + -Nowadays, I don't want to be a bird anymore, of course. -I want to be a fox. -I can't explain why I'm feeling this way Therians are individuals who believe they are an animal on some level, either spiritually -- such as past lives or souls -- or psychologically. It sounds like the perfect answer to my question, but after looking into them it didn't resonate with me. - -I am not a fox. -It would be ridiculous to claim otherwise. -A fox wouldn't be able to type on a keyboard, not to mention come up with this text in the first place. +I can't bring myself to say "I *am* a fox" in any serious context because I know I'm not one. +A fox wouldn't be able to type on a keyboard or come up with this text in the first place. A fox couldn't have a job as a software developer. A fox wouldn't look in the mirror and see a human. + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf