Perception of Nature

Drops of water falling from the heavens, like personalities each unstoppable and diverse in their own way collaborating to form a puddle, a story to be pursued all greater than each drop itself. March 21, 2016, Courtney arrives to Oregon Zoo with her younger cousin. To no surprise, the zoo was scarce of humans, as Courtney walked through the balloon shaped road. This exiguous amount of attendance due to the overwhelming fear of nature, so pure yet powerful and more than anything unpredictable. As Courtney held her cousin close, they arrived to a display of condors. While not at all appealing and black as sin, these feral beings cast light on the true behavior of nature, as they devoured a deer in a “matter of minutes”. They didn’t however all share the meal but they “fought over it”, greed corrupting the fact that they are the same species. After witnessing such gruesome events, Courtney pondered, “who killed the deer and why?” As her mind remained on the thought, her small cousin remarked the experience as “awesome”. A child who dwells yet in the ignorance of pain and suffering, someday bound to understand the apathetic degrees of nature. Despite the difference in age, the two beheld the same event through different eyes; remarking the event differently. Like two drops none the same derived from a cloud of truth, the cloud becomes unattainable as it’s uniqueness excels the recreational abilities of nature.