A bear for a day

 

A bear for a day        

 

Differences are those that make life more interesting, so does the crossing of humans with animal’s life and the opposite. As human beings we are frequently surrounded by people, but we always need something new and interesting in our life, in order to create more experiences. The decision of going to visit the Bear Sanctuary was worthy. From the entrance everything looked amazing, the nature, the sound of birds, and everything else. Nala, Steve, Andri, Lena who are now my new friends, stole my heart from the moment I saw them. They accepted my presence without roaring or scaring me. Immediately I felt like I entered their world, and forgot what other things are around me. Unable to speak with me, they still made me speak with them as they are little babies and understand, but I’m pretty sure they have that spiritual way of communication.

 As soon as they heard my voice going near them, they started looking at me, as if they were waiting for me to meet them and I felt as If I was seeking for some cute new friends. Even though they are used to seem as wild creatures, my desire of touching them is still, but of course unrealized. The best part of this one-day journey was when I met bear Nala, it was having the best time in a sunny day, as I had amazing feeling, looking at it. Guess what, I was on cloud nine, when I found out we have something in common, and that is that we both love eating cherries. Characteristic of Nala is that it looks like a teddy bear because of its round face and short stubby nose, and is recovering from old traumas and stresses placed on it by life in a metal cage.

                                                                                          

As I continued walking near them, Steve bear decided to make its appearance and say hi to me. As much as I felt happy seeing it having its best time swimming in little pool, I felt so bad because of its past. Steve had wounds infected but thanks to the willing people, now Steve is living in better conditions. Going up the trail of the other bears, I found my bear spirit, Lena, relaxing and ignoring things that made it annoyed was the best part, seeing it lying in the grass was so funny. As each bear, Lena also had a sad past memory, she is really scared of noises, but she seems to manage it well and it made me happy to see this.

 Andri had a really tough life, it was separated from its mother only when it was less than 1 months old, for unknown reason. As human beings we think that only we suffer, but Andri did so. Andri continued living and growing up alone and not feeling the love of the mother. Seeing them living now in good conditions and happier, made me feel delighted because they have feelings too, and no words can describe the feeling of how pleased I was.

       

Moving on, near those bears, I found another famous, fabulous creature. A giant lion was staying, waiting for visitors to see it. I felt mesmerized by this beautiful, yet scary creature. Only thinking if it would be aggressive and attack us made me feel a little bit (very much) scared.

As I came to the end of this day, and it was the moment of letting the bears live on their peace, I thank them for every feeling and emotion they gave me. The power of spirit language sometimes speaks more than words.

 

 

Laureta Berisha