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DaRk AnGel : Why Home : January 2006 : What will happen as man continues to evolve?

What will happen as man continues to evolve?

Destiny today got up and ate, went out and did her business, and is as she was a week ago. Seems like I will have more time with her. Thank you god! Dogs are so resilient.

I was counting the birds today. It is something I do every week during the winter for two consecutive days. It is something that I wish more people would do. These winter counts give a good indication to the health and numbers of the birds. This is in conjunction with Cornell University's Project Feeder Watch. If you have feeders, they can use your numbers. And there is no mandatory time, just that you watch some, two days in a row.

Two of the Inca Doves came up to feed. A month ago, I had four. Yesterday there were three here. Since the Inca's mate for life, it meant a death had occurred. The birds were not old, nor did they look ill. It was either one of the feral cats in the neighborhood, or a hawk.

Inca Doves do something many animals do, but man cannot seem to. The doves do not have our intelligence, our ease of life, or so much that we have, yet their unions are forever. Is this not a good indication that it is the way it is expected to be?

I wonder how doves decide who is the right one for them? Is it weight? Or height? Can't be what they wear, because they all look the same. The males and females are identically marked, unlike many other types of birds where of course the male is always the prettier! I do not think it is a sense of humor that attracts the birds to each other since I have never seen birds laugh. Maybe they do but silently. There has to be some gratification to pooping on a person's head.

What makes a bird decide that out of all the birds, that this is the one it will mate with and be a partner to forever? For that matter, how can birds that look the same irregardless of the gender know each others sex? Unlike dogs they do not sniff. There are no physical differences that are externally obvious.

Watching the Doves and other birds, I now know that they are capable of emotions. I see and have photographed birds fighting. I have also gotten pictures of birds doing kind and gentle things. Doves that groom each other, and that affectionately nuzzle. Cardinals that break a worm in two and give half to their mate.

Is it love that binds the birds that mate for life together? If it is, then it must be a deeper love than we are capable of. With no words, with having to struggle just to survive, with death always over head in the form of hawks and falcons, they stick together.

A hundred and fifty years ago families were settling this country. It was not an easy life. The people were reliant on each other doing their share to survive for the success of the family. Everyone contributed and the days were long and physically hard. People did the same things the birds did: Worked to find food, and shelter, and to raise young. Man was luckier and smarter than the birds, over time he had harnessed fire, he had invented tools and built his own shelters. But still the similarities were many. The goal was to raise food, feed the family, and survive the seasons. It just got easier because humans had a brain that forever looked to make life easier.

Divorce back then was nowhere near what the levels are today.

Now that life is easier, and we have more time than ever for our leisure, most cannot love someone for the term of their lives. We are not dependent on each other to survive. We are more concerned with immediate pleasure than having to have the wood chopped in advance to get us through the winter. We have evolved and changed. We continue to seek more ways to have more fun, more me time. And in the evolution there have been an outpouring of new problems. We are weaker, we get addicted easily. We cannot harvest our own emotions and thoughts, and use distractions, and external things to not think or feel. We have evolved into a society where each person takes no responsibility for the world or people around them. We are no longer family oriented, but me oriented. We sacrifice only when the returns are more than what we give. And along with all this new deviations run wild. People that beat the objects of their love.. Beasts that prey on the innocent children… Eating disorders that are simply suicides…

What will happen as man continues to evolve? What will be the addictions a century from now? What will the newest atrocities be? What problems will there be that we cannot even imagine?

Yet the birds still have life as they did. Their life is not easier, and probably much harder with mans wasting of the natural resources. They still struggle, without all the benefits and inventions to make life easier, to do what they did since they were first here.

The birds can still love for life. Is it the struggle that strengthens their union so much?

One would think with our minds that we would have emotionally evolved as well, or is that it exactly? We have - and the results are what we have today for our society.

God bless the families of today.. If only they had if as simple as the birds. Families have to find reason to stay together and devoted, for the unit to be the most important entity.

All the birds have to do is survive and the by product of the process is devotion and commitment - Love. As long as they do not evolve they seem to have that which all of humankind so desires.