What interesting creatures we are. One day we wake up an realize, we ARE. We BE. I BE. Wow, I am conscious. I look around me. This is a very strange and beautiful place. Lots of other creatures here. I learn to communicate with things that look like me and things that do not look like me. The ones who look like me are telling me all kinds of things about where I am and who I am and why I am. Most of it sounds scary or ridiculous or boring. Some of the explanations are pretty cool. Other explanations make me laugh or cry or get really pissed off. The longer I am here, the less I believe any of it beyond a certain point. One thing that is clear to me, is that to be alive is an incredible gift and I love it and am very grateful. It is also clear to me that for a lot of creatures that look like me, life is not such a gift, and they have many reasons not to love it or feel grateful for being alive. The feeling I have now might change. I hope not but I have seen that life takes a lot of twis...