Some people in my school are extremely interesting to observe. Coming to school for me is like going to the zoo. You walk in there are a bunch of different enclosures and houses to go and see. Then there's the visitors, like me, watching. The people who aren't caged in by the electrical fence of the student hierarchy. Fitting in nowhere and everywhere. On my left you will see the lions den. The one's that looked adorable at a younger age so they're the crowd favorite now. But make no mistake, if their fence was taken down they would bite your head off in two seconds; no doubt about it. Walking in their specific prides and attacking anyone who they find a threat. Lying in the shade for most of the day, doing nothing, mostly grooming themselves in ea. other but starving themselves with knowledge at the same time. On your right you see the monkey house. Full of fun loving monkey's jumping all over the place having a great 'oll time eating and throwing poop at eat other but don't look through the glass funny or join the fun and throw some poop. Oh no, that isn't tolerated. The little smiling facade will melt away leaving them literally, going ape-shit. In front of you there's the reptile house. "That's were they keep the animals no-one really likes all that much" the zoo keeper would say as he walked in front of you. Every creature there usually just sits and sun bathes itself stoically looking weird and eating their crickets contently. I usually sit and watch these the most because i relate the most to them then any other animal here. As i walk through the reptile house i come upon the Bird Sanctuary connected in the back. This is full of loud chirping birds, who wouldn't think twice on shitting on you walk under neath them. Making all their noise, showing off, but truly they feel just as threatened as you do when a bird lifts his tail feather. I usually try and avoid this part of the zoo because no matter how hard i try, i usually get a good helping of shit squarely on my cardigan. The elephants are loud and big and know this fact, they own this fact. Very confident creatures and that is a good characteristic for any animal to want to reproduce with. Also the elephants announce the whole affair to everyone. It would be a crime if an elephant had sex and didn't alert the whole zoo. There's a few emu's and llama's that are not very attractive. Some have messed up teeth, a mis-shapened head or just awkwardness embedded in their body structure. But they are a proud creature and seem to bare no shame. So all the power to them. I just try and make sure the don't try and lick me and spit on me and i'm good.
I guess you could shove me into one of these groups just like i did with all of my school. I mean whenever i write i try not to point out the obvious stereotypes in america but that wasn't the point of this blog. The point of the blog is that i don't belong to any of these groups. Sometimes i feel like i'm the lone visitor to this decaying and decrepit zoo. I'm the only one who doesn't seem to know if it's good to be animal or a visitor. I'm nothing like lion, elephants, emu's, llamas or monkeys. The closet thing i could be is the lone bearded dragon. But I don't have enough of the "I-DON'T-GIVE-A-SHIT" attitude because sadly i do give a shit. But you know what i really want to do? Is just get insisde ea. animals head and see what they're thinking. Just for a few seconds. Just to see if what i think they're thinking is turns out actually to be true and then i can happily place them in whatever stereotype I choose. I want to see if the lions are actually as proud, confident and full of themselves as they come off to be. I want to see if the way they act actually is who they are because i's put all my money on that being false. In that case maybe wanting to be an animal in a zoo is a bad thing. I think i'm just going to be content with being the lone visitor at this zoo, looking in on the only world these strange creatures have ever known.
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