Imagine your life

BrokenSmile

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Imagine a bird in a cage. Imagine what kind of boring life she live. But she is safe, she is loved by his master, she have what she need: food, water, a safe place, even more: she is sharing her cage with another bird who is her partner. Those birds have a kind of freedom, they can leave their cage anytime and flying in that spacious house of their master but those birds will never see the sky and never will know how far and high can flying.

Now imagine the same bird free. She have to fight for everything (food, water, a place). No place is safe enough for her and life is a risky one coz anytime she can be kill by another prowior bird. But sometimes she's flying so hig that is seems she touch the sky.

If you were a bird, what life would prefer:be in a cage with all stuff like bird in the story ... or be a free bird? And why.
 

thequietone

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The second one. I think. I want to fly! :lol:

That is a hard question, BrokenSmile. Sort of off topic, but have you read the book "Life of Pi"? It's a great read and a good portion of it makes an argument for zoos and how zoo life is more relaxing and nice for animals than the wild. This post reminded me of that.
 

Scottish_Player

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I would rather be a free bird for the reason being i know what its like to live in a cage, my cage is my home, if i was a free bird i would leave my cage and go touch the sky and fly as high as i can, but i would always like to have my cage to go back to at night which in my case would be my home.

I really liked the way you put it in the post :D
 

Mysterioux

Member
I read this post this morning, and it's late evening now, and i've given this some thought. Unlike most people, i'm going to say, that if i were given the choice, then it would most likely be the life in the cage. The cage is too similar to the life i live now. I'd espeacially want the life in the cage if there was a partner there, already, for me. And i'm afraid, i'm afraid of change, and facing things i'm not familar with by myself, even if that means giving up freedom. I guess i'm attracted to that, safety, love and protection.
However. If i was that bird, and i had lived awhile in that cage, then perhaps if me and my partner bird found a little hole in the wall of the mansion, and had the chance to fly through it. If i could then and there, build up the courage to go, i am pretty sure i would fly away and never look back.
 

IceLad

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The second one, I think. :? That bird would experience everything life has to offer whether it's good or bad.
 

savage_beagle

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freeeeeee bird!

I would like to be the free bird, free to come and go as i please, to fly high in the sky and be able to perch ontop of places nobody on earth could ever touch, unless they too had wings. I would be free to find my own food and clean water and to mate and sleep wherever the wind takes me. When the angel of death decided to fart in my direction, it would be as a free flying bird....not as a caged bird getting all eaten up by dat puddy tat. Besides....free flying bird....i could take a runny crap all over your newly washed car, or poop in your popcorn at outdoor stadium...mmmm....peck out the eyes of world tyrants, go to nude beaches and pull on naked boobie's nipples (looked like a short-fat worm to me) :evil: :lol: :evil: --the fun i could have. Fuck it, i wanna be an eagle now.
 

renegade

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I would like to be a bird allright, but with human brains. And I would like to live in a cage and allways have food, water, and somebody by my side.

Of course I'd write to my owner on a piece of paper ''brb'' when I was to open the window all by myself and fly outside for a few hours. :lol:

Now seriouselly, I wouldn't like to be an animal, but human. Without SP of course or other life-fucking diseases. :wink:
 

BrokenSmile

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:D I need another 4 opinions about the story and till then i hope i will find the meaning of the story. I can see it clearly in my mind but something is missing.... :?

Maybe is no sense in this ...
 

Dysfunct

Member
If I had a romantic partner to spend my life with and food provided to me at no charge then hell yeah I'd stay in the cage! :D Sounds like utopia to me. Physical affection and all the basic needs taken care of. Only way it could get better is if the place had high speed Internet access and some way for birds to play online games 8) I honestly believe if I had a significant other in my life it would cure a lot of my depression.
 

PunkyMonkey

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I know that flying free, despite the danger, is the 'right' answer... but that cage sounds really appealing right now. I would like some sense of 'security' right now. I would like things to be set for me, to be certain of what I was doing, and to not have to worry all the time. I would like to go just one day without facing any uncertainty and without doubting myself at all.
 
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