Let's Pretend(Misc.)

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If you could be anything other than a human, what would you be? Why? Where you be it?

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), January 05, 2001

Answers

I would be a tree growing next to a house full of children and adults. I would be very old w/ large branches for treehouses and swings. People would sit under me and talk about their dreams and hopes and plans for their future and I would listen . There is nothing in my opion as graceful and stately as an old tree,imagine all the years they have lived through and if they could hear all the voices they have heard and if they could see all history that has happened around them.

-- renee oneill{md.} (oneillsr@home.com), January 05, 2001.

A big bird, like a hawk or eagle. I can sit all day and watch the vultures that fly over the pasture, catch the wind and soar for what seems forever. What they lack in looks, they make up for in their beautiful flight. What a feeling that would be to see the mountains and land from that vantage point. I've had some of my happiest dreams in that I was flying. Literally, no plane. Maybe I should take up hang gliding! hee hee

-- Annie (mistletoe@earthlink.net), January 05, 2001.

A wolf. Highly intelligent,have an extended family(complete with conflicts),good parents,own language, make beautiful music,and live as wild as it gets.

Where? Far,far away from man, since most of them would hate me.They should reconsider.

Hindu belief... people that still need some work, come back as a dog (wolf)

-- sharon wt (wildflower@ekyol.com), January 05, 2001.


A girl's bicycle seat.

-- hillbilly (internethillbilly@hotmail.com), January 05, 2001.

Wind. It goes everywhere, can be gentle, powerful, pleasant, joyful,powerful, horrific, irritating and no one knows where it goes yet it is...it touches pretty much everything living.

-- Doreen (animalwaitress@excite.com), January 05, 2001.


All the things that I would rather be are in doubt because Man is destroying them...dolphin, whale, seal, wolf. Of the ones with fewest downsides, maybe a horse. However, as an interesting sidelight, I have had multiple people tell me that if there is a reincarnation, they want to come back as anything that is my pet. They figure they'll be set for life.

-- Julie Froelich (firefly1@nnex.net), January 06, 2001.

A Grizzel Bear in the upper Canadian Rockies. Ahh, the freedom to have very few natural enemies (actually only one). To hunt and fish at my leisure and spend my days teaching my cubs. To live in fields and streams whose beauty no painter can begin to transfer onto the canvas. To never have known sin ! To wear a coat that Solemon in all of his glory could never have worn with such majesty, the coat of a silver back. To sit and watch my children play in fields of clover, laughing and wrestling--rolling and jumping. Than so fat, from the taste of salmon, to snuggle in my cave and sleep for the duration of winter. It is a life that no living thing since Adam could ever know--absolute and total freedom !

-- Joel Rosen (Joel681@webtv.net), January 06, 2001.

An angel, like Michael Landon, on Highway to Heaven, only a girl angel.

-- Cindy in Ky (solidrockranch@msn.com), January 06, 2001.

ummm...actually Joel,you wouldn't be watching your children or teaching them,you'd be trying to kill them,since male grizzlys are very territorial.Are you sure you want to be one,now? And you'd have two enemies,man and other grizzlys,as again they are very territorial and will kill each other,if necessary.

I loved your immagery.You have a poetic soul.I just get bugged about innacurate and purely romantic portrayals of an animal's traits.Just ignore me.Rabid Wildlifer.

They called the wind Mariah.You gonna change your name,now,doreen?I liked that analogy too.And of course,Renee, the rowen tree,that's the kind I pictured,anyway.Tree of Life. Great post.

-- sharon wt (wildflower@ekyol.com), January 06, 2001.


Koala Bear.

Just hang out in a specific tree all the time sleeping and eating leaves. Nobody really wants to eat them. They aren't extinct yet. Pretty good view. Teaching your body to get all of the food and water requirements from the leaves of a tree that's particularily abundent in the area. (Now that's real homesteading)

-- Marty (Mrs.Puck@EXcite.com), January 06, 2001.



A big, fat, fluffy, pampered house cat! I'd snooze on the back of the sofa in the sunshine, sit on the newspaper and any comfortable lap I could find, eat exorbitantly priced food out of little cans in a fancy cut glass bowl, watch the birds at the bird feeder and maybe - just MAYBE deign to catch a mousey or two for those 4 large creatures who's only purpose in life is to wait on me hand a foot - err make that paw.......

Bet you can't guess where I got this idea!!

-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), January 06, 2001.


A poor mans' dog. They have the best lives.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), January 06, 2001.

Ahhhhh thank you Cindy for the dream post. well , I would be a Hemlock tree, which if you know Hemlock trees then you know that they grow down by the streams and the shady places. so i would be a Hemlock tree with the stream cooling my roots, My husband would be another hemlock tree and our roots would be intertwined in the rocky soil beneath us.

-- Trendle Ellwood (trendlespin@msn.com), January 06, 2001.

I think I'm with Polly (at least for today; I am unpredictable....)

I would be a cat.........caring not for the opinions of others, I would live my blissfull life in complete serenity....with an occassional exciting moment of suspense, usually initiated by my own arrogance.

I would almost always be RELAXED...taking life as it came....and laughingly playing with those who would try to UNRELAX me........thereby helping them to understand how to be more like.......a cat...

-- Earthmama (earthmama48@yahoo.com), January 06, 2001.


"I loved your immagery.You have a poetic soul.I just get bugged about innacurate and purely romantic portrayals of an animal's traits.Just ignore me.Rabid Wildlifer"

***************************************************** Aw-w-w-w-w come on, Sharon. You never saw a Yogi Bear cartoon? He just wants to collect those "pic-a-nik" baskets.

(:raig

-- Craig Miller (CMiller@ssd.com), January 10, 2001.



Yeah Craig, and rips your throat out if you don't give it to him!

Just watched another program on polar bears - and tourists hanging out windows of tour busses to get pictures of them.One guy who did this, now eats, onehanded. Now, there's a bear I have really healthy respect for!

Hey,sometimes you get the bear,and sometimes the bear gets you. Reality bites. HAHAHA!

-- sharon wt (wildflower@ekyol.com), January 10, 2001.


Hmmmmm. I'm with Julie on this -- some human would probably come along and try to do me in . . . . . I'd like to be a dolphin, living in the 1700's when people weren't so populous. I'd also like to be a wolf or a cougar or an elephant or a humpbacked whale, singing away in the warm water off Lahaina. But that would have to be WAY back before the whalers . . . .

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), January 10, 2001.

A fisher -- they're a cross between a badger and a weasel -- bred in the early part of the century to get rid of over-abundant skunks and porcupines. They're gloriously beautiful, tenacious, clever, and determined, and NOBODY messes with them.

-- Tracy (trimmer@westzone.com), January 12, 2001.

A dolphin. I think they are smarter than we are and spend a lot of their time playing. They get along fine and get to travel too!

-- sheepish (WA) (rborgo@gte.net), January 12, 2001.

I've been thinking about this, I wouldn't want to be an animal. Life is just as hard(or worse) for them as it is for us. I wouldn't mind being a tree, an old, knarled twisted one hanging on a rocky slope. Maybe an old olive tree bearing a crop of olives every year. Or, I can see from our house, a huge, old boulder, carried down by the glaciers. It's all covered with moss, it just sits there through the ages, too big to move, leaching minerals into the soil. Soil is what I will be and I don't mind that, either.

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), January 13, 2001.

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