Dead Things
As i left the school where i work tuesday mornings and drove down the windy country lane past fields of horses towards the dual carriageway that takes me to my next job, i was stopped in my tracks by a young deer which appeared from nowhere and ran into the road infront of me. It had managed to get over a fence seperating the field and woods where it probably lived from the road i was on and its mother, obviously distressed leaped about frantically trying to entice it back over the fence. I managed to stop intime but the deer, very frightened, trying repeatedly to jump the fence and escape the road it had found itself on only managed to run into the fence. I stopped the car and switched of the engine to not aggravate the situation as i was worried that it would just start running in the direction of the busy road.
It did this anyway so i figured the only thing i could do was try and get past it and scare it back away from the road which i did, just. I directed it away from the road down a footpath and then parked the car and followed on foot but unfortunately i couldnt catch up with it and have no idea where it could have ended up.
The mother had long since given up and i would be surprised if they managed to find each other again as they'd run in opposite directions. I thought about inserting a sad face here but to be honest that just wouldnt get it done, i have spent the whole day thinking about this and how sad the whole thing has made me.
It got me thinking about the same feeling of deep sadness that i get every time i see something dead on the road and about the lasting negative impact we have on this planet and the other inhabitants of it. How can we stop what we are doing and what can we all do right now that will bring about a change in lifestyle and whatever to stop the demise of this place that i for one, love.
Dont get me wrong, i understand the need to drive to work and drive the kids to school and warm our houses etc and i am not suggesting for one second that i do anything atall to help the situation. I guess all i'm saying is does anyone get where i'm coming from on this stuff, are you welling up just thinking about it now like me or am i just a crazy hippy whos much too oversensitive to the plight of the animal population and the earth?
As i left the school where i work tuesday mornings and drove down the windy country lane past fields of horses towards the dual carriageway that takes me to my next job, i was stopped in my tracks by a young deer which appeared from nowhere and ran into the road infront of me. It had managed to get over a fence seperating the field and woods where it probably lived from the road i was on and its mother, obviously distressed leaped about frantically trying to entice it back over the fence. I managed to stop intime but the deer, very frightened, trying repeatedly to jump the fence and escape the road it had found itself on only managed to run into the fence. I stopped the car and switched of the engine to not aggravate the situation as i was worried that it would just start running in the direction of the busy road.
It did this anyway so i figured the only thing i could do was try and get past it and scare it back away from the road which i did, just. I directed it away from the road down a footpath and then parked the car and followed on foot but unfortunately i couldnt catch up with it and have no idea where it could have ended up.
The mother had long since given up and i would be surprised if they managed to find each other again as they'd run in opposite directions. I thought about inserting a sad face here but to be honest that just wouldnt get it done, i have spent the whole day thinking about this and how sad the whole thing has made me.
It got me thinking about the same feeling of deep sadness that i get every time i see something dead on the road and about the lasting negative impact we have on this planet and the other inhabitants of it. How can we stop what we are doing and what can we all do right now that will bring about a change in lifestyle and whatever to stop the demise of this place that i for one, love.
Dont get me wrong, i understand the need to drive to work and drive the kids to school and warm our houses etc and i am not suggesting for one second that i do anything atall to help the situation. I guess all i'm saying is does anyone get where i'm coming from on this stuff, are you welling up just thinking about it now like me or am i just a crazy hippy whos much too oversensitive to the plight of the animal population and the earth?
it's not all gona be play while i'm there though I've arranged to do some ghost shaping for a couple of guys there in exchange for some tuition in the art, the better i get at shaping the sooner i can open my own shop once my degree is over