Maneuvering the animal
One comes to realize with time, that ACS (Independent) is an animal. To newcomers, it is a totally different animal from almost any others they have tried to watch over. An ambitious animal, a vicious animal. If you were to come close to riding it, not for control, but just to see where it takes you, you would realize that there is no saddle for the rider. If you hang on tight enough though, it promises to teach you strength beyond what is commonly known to most zoologists. The force at which it breaks the air, golden red glistening feathers, and legs larger than a bear's trunk will also tell you that the animal is not to be tamed. Its awareness and acute understanding of the rest of the animal kingdom will never allow it. Maybe you should never want it to be tamed. Maybe you can grow to be one of its feeders, already a privileged position.As for its self defence and a predatory nature, it maneuvers to become the prime member of a particular line in the food chain. Its unique ability to modify its intestinal track, changing to absorb new sources of nutrients with each shift in climate up keeps its sustainability. Sometimes it even creates the food it is to eat. It is strange, that such an animal, more powerful than you or I, more self willed and determined, should be watched over, should need statesmanship pledged to itself. That statesmanship, pledged and just released, has left the rider with a more comprehensive understanding into the models for strength in the animal kingdom. It has been valuable, is valuable, and once again reminds the rider that right and wrong in an experience like this, is hardly ever as clear as the difference between black and white. But the experience has been beneficial, the zoo keeping has bore brightly coloured fruit.Succulent, maybe not, but bright and attractive at least. Ultimately, you do what you can to learn about the animal. Perhaps along the way it will show you what it needs. And perhaps fulfilling that, with each generation, is what is best.
For the experience, I am grateful.
posted by gneh-snah @ 8:00 AM
3 Comments:
You're animal sounds uncannily like man.
Oops, my bad english, *your
I wouldn't want to prescribe the entire functionings of the organization to one man:p lol
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