I love my cats but not because they’re cats, because they’re them. I was raised with dogs and I love dogs. When I decided I wanted pets cats fitted into our lifestyle better. They still do. I wouldn’t trust myself at a dog rescue centre though.
The truth is if it’s alive it matters, I love animals. Wild animals fascinate me. What we are doing to them breaks my heart.
How can something as destructive as humanity possibly think it’s the most important thing in the world?
There is nothing we don’t try to destroy, even mentally and emotionally. I doubt that the trolls on social media realise that they’re murderers. Would they even care?
This is why I love animals, well that and they’re magnificent. They do no deliberate harm.
Insects are key to the survival of this planet, and whilst loving an earwig or rat may be a challenge, I would certainly never hurt one willingly.
Our old Taekwondo instructor always made us scoop up ants and remove them safely back to nature. The sight of the senior belts scrabbling around the floor shooing ants out was an eye opener when you first saw it, and such fun when you were one of them.
It reminded us all we’re not the master race and being a black belt was a duty and responsibility, not a badge of honour.
I’ll leave you with a quote from Gregg Hurwitz who writes thrillers, mainly the Orphan X books.
How you do anything is how you do everything
Gregg Hurwitz
How you hate becomes you and what you do, ditto with how you love. Why not love?
That’s perhaps the most vital question facing humanity right now.
Some will call me woke, and yes, I am awake. Hate destroys – Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, entire species of animals. Love builds and creates.
Why not love?
More importantly – why hate? It’s only fear in disguise.
I love you
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 