Thread by @shaunjlawson

I was looking at my pigeons earlier, and I was thinking:

- You don't go around trying to get other pigeons cancelled for having a different opinion on something

- You don't go around demonising other pigeons: you depend upon each other

- You don't start wars with other pigeons

- You don't hang around in gangs terrorising other pigeons

- You don't spend each and every day on this planet desperate to get offended by another pigeon

- You don't go around killing other animals for 'sport'

- You don't sentence other pigeons to death

- You don't rape female pigeons when they tell you to get lost and stop bothering them

- You haven't created a whole new language and forced it down all the other pigeons' throats

- You're not destroying your own habitat and that of all other living creatures

- You don't think the whole purpose of life is to get rich by any means possible and screw everyone else

- You do respect elder pigeons but you don't kick shit in the faces of young pigeons

- You don't strap another pigeon to a chair and hook their nuts up to a car battery

(That last one's plagiarised, I know).

It's amazing what we can - and should - learn from animals. Who aren't perfect, who can be feral, but are so much better than us, it's mindblowing at times.

I saw a lovely piece of therapeutic advice the other day. "Learn to talk to animals".

I agree. And if you do, it might just change your life too.