This time of year both bothers and yet delights me. I am happy to see my friends and family whom I have missed so much, and presents are always nice. However I hate people during this time. Everyone is rushing and pushing and yelling and screaming. I can understand how the grinch got to be such a meiser. People are miserable over the holidays. They have to take care of their kids who are off from school, and buy millions of dollars worth of presents for people they mostly dont really like. the Grinch had the plan, hide out in a cave away from the clutter and the chaos of Whoville, at least not untill after new years.
I took my little sister to the Camden Aquarium on Wednesday, thinking it would be a nice place, not too crowded (because its a weekday and it's the middle of winter) and it'd be educational. No such luck for me, while it was educational (mainly because I watch too much animal planet and was practically a human textbook) it was terribly overcrowded with pqarents dragging their children out to get them out of the house. I mean people were everywhere! Squished closer together then the penguins were in their tiny enclosure. Not to mention the fact that I was not impressed with the seeming lack of quality of life for many of the animals (especially the seals and penguins). I feel I can't risk taking my sister out again untill after everybody actually goes back to work. Unfortuneately she'll be in school by then.
I feel like I can't bring myself to go to aquariums or zoos anymore because it depresses me. I miss seeing wild animals roaming around in my back yard. They at least were happy. Animals behind bars is just... well, depressing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some crazy commie-hippy-environmentalist. I'm not vegen and I don't protest leather or meat. But I don't like seeing animals in cages. Big open pastures and fields are good things. And so are giant tanks with diversity and interesting things for the animals, not just some fish in a tank, or a sloth in a fake tree.
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