This time

I blink and 3 months have gone by. I miss many things but mostly, I miss me.

On leave yesterday, I wandered off to Mandai Zoo. And it struck me at the gates – that not unlike the animals, I was taking shelter from human beings! Hunters, persecutors and the like. If your days are more or less made up of people chasing you around in a mad rush to get things done, relaxing amongst gibbons and otters is a welcome break.

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It’s easy to feel sorry for animals supposedly in captivity. But really, on which side does the enclosure lie? If you look hard enough at the face of a lioness you might catch her lips curling upwards into a knowing smirk. There’s an inside joke going on, and it’s on you.

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When will I see open blue Friday skies once more?