You are an animal

Every time I hear of someone being compared to an animal I get annoyed. When someone is really fat you’ll often here the term “foca” (seal) in Spain. Or “the white whale”, as Gabriel García Márquez refers to Eréndira’s (evil, evil) grandmother in one of his short novels. Well, I think this is really offensive…to the animal, of course. What is happens is this…animals have everything human beings lack. In a day spent with a dog you receive a year’s worth of affection received from a human being. They are smarter, they don’t start senseless wars, they don’t live in the past, they hold no grudges, they don’t care about the future, they are independent, they hold their own. So no, you are not an animal. You are a simpleton, you couldn’t live in the wild for three days, couldn’t possibly be a predator without a gun, couldn’t survive an insect-sting without scratching or the stare of a tiger unless he’s at the zoo. You are human.