MIKADEMUS's blog: "REFLECTIONS OF A LYCANTHROPE"

I was at our north warehouse one day to move some supplies at my employers request. While I was taking care of this task I noticed that a wild bird had flown into the building. The dilemma for this poor creature is that it didn't comprehend that it would have to fly lower to the ground in order to escape to freedom. Sadly as it flew frantically back and forth I realized that when I left it would be stranded in this dark, silent tomb until shock or lack of water had claimed it. No one should die alone and this was a sad and senseless for what was about to play out. I tried repeatedly to herd the bird to the big open door but just when it was about low enough and close enough it would turn for the ceiling and what it veiwed as safety. Freedom and salvation were at times only inches away but the poor creature's instinct's told it to fly upward. Fear had become it's prison and was going to seal it's fate. It was painful to stand outside of this and watch. As human beings we like to think we do not suffer these kinds of pitfalls because we are intellectually elevated but a far more complex existence simply makes for far more complex traps. When a woman is in an abusive relationship, it is painful to watch even for strangers as she suffers at the hands of another. Her fear holding her in a prison that exists in her mind. Most prisons are forged out of fear and only we can save ourselves.- the wounded man of pech merle.