Birds Brought Me Death

I love birds. My favorite character in my favorite series got stuck in the form of a bird. I currently have four birds that I love like children. Birds are just amazing animals and all through my spiritual journey I've found them playing an integral part of my life.

A few days ago I realized that birds have been with me much longer on my journey than I thought. This is why I could never write a chronological story of my spiritual journey. There are just too many twists and turns to make sense of in a cohesive story. Well...not unless I wrote the book from beyond the grave that is.

So how much longer have they been with me than I thought?

In first or second grade me and another kid found a dead bird. Because we believed the science teacher was super smart and could bring the creature back to life, we brought the bird to him. We left him for a little bit and were surprised when we got back that the teacher had thrown the creature away. We couldn't believe he had failed to bring the creature back to life.

It was a bird that first showed me what death was. Birds have been with me since the beginning and just never realized it.