Perspective on parrots by people.
People who keep parrots inside their homes, trapped in a cage. Those creatures who are meant to fly, meant to spread their wings and not enclosed to stay somewhere they don’t belong.
It’s something like this;
When a person wants to fly, and fly in a sense; needs to be liberated, unmatched and uncontrollable. That person is deemed as selfish, self-centered, shameless and in many occasions, “ITS NOT YOUR PLACE TO FLY”.
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Although when a person stops walking, which they’re meant to, they’re called rather disable or too lazy to do shit. So why doesn’t it go the same way to the creatures who’re trapped in an endless circle of not flying, running or even walking. One thing they’re meant to do, snatched away from people who criticize each other for the same thing.
I imagine it, sitting there behind the bars. Wings shut, so hopelessly that it stops wanting to sail at all. But when they get a chance, they never look back. Why?
No matter how much you give to something, while taking one thing that matters the most to it, never lets you keep it forever.
It eventually either stops complaining, or die at last. One middle ground is that they might fight for itself, but in that course, it’s called rebellious and reckless.
This goes the same for people and animals. The world is saying, there’s no difference left between the two creatures, but actually, there is much greater difference now than ever.
