WHAT IF ANIMALS SPOKE ABOUT US?

 

         It is a story about animals' perceptions of us and who we are. What would they think of us if they took our roles? What would we change about us? 

        Ten street cats were living in a large garden near a big house. They lived by hunting, playing, and eating the whole day in peace. Ten family members were living in that same house. Unlike cats, they were stressed and depressed. There were three generations. The parents lived with their two sons and their wives. Each of the sons' families had two children.

One day, when the cats and family members were in the garden, something strange happened unexpectedly. Just in the morning, a magical light spread all over the garden. The family members transformed into cats, and the cats, in turn, became humans. They got all possible human or animal features of the other creatures except the memory of the past, which reminded them of who they were. 

Cats realized that they had transformed into people and started living their lives. It was ridiculous for the cats. 

In the morning, they ate from the plates using special tools, just like ordinary humans. They thought that it was just a waste of time. 

In the afternoon, they ate a lot of raw meat without boiling it. They felt discomfort in their human bodies. They felt dizzy and started to vomit. They didn't like that human bodies were generally intolerant to raw meat. 

In the evening, they did not like the pre-cooked food, ingredients, and species available, as they realized that most of the food had non-natural ingredients. They were surprised that humans could consume so much junk food every day. 

The next day, two of them stayed home as retirees. The other four cats went to work as humans. Small cats as students attended school and university. Only retired cats liked staying-at-home activities. The cats thought people could find and cultivate everything in their gardens or hunt animals but buy nothing for money. They also complained about education. What was the correlation between education and living? 

In the evening, young cats watched what was happening on social networks. It was difficult for them to understand why people wore clothes if they could semi-naked way show themselves online and do foolish and meaningless movements and other stuff. It was strange for the cats why people communicated by devices when they could meet each other in real life. They were so surprised that people led an "isolated" life, surrounding themselves with so much artificial food, tools, equipment, technology, and construction instead of nature.

As for the family members, being transformed into cats, they stood in shock in the garden. They tried to eat some greens, but they could not. Their taste receptors were not human. They understood that they should hunt like cats. They did not want to eat rats, mice, and birds without cooking. When they stopped their complaints, they felt nature with all their essence. Only at that moment, they felt content. The only relief they felt was the absence of all kinds of technologies, especially internet service, with all its stress. They began to run and jump like real cats. They felt nature the way they had never felt before. 

        In the morning, James, the only child in the family, with a smile on his face, woke up from his dream and guessed that it was just a dream and he was not a cat anymore. He realized he should change something in his human life...