Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?
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This question assumes a person can neatly fit into one animal.
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I find that slightly ambitious.
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Because if I’m being honest, my personality is less one animal and more… a mildly disorganized zoo.
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Some days I have the stubborn determination of a cat that refuses to move from your laptop keyboard.
Some days I carry the quiet patience of an elephant — remembering things I probably should have forgotten years ago.
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There are days with the restless curiosity of a sparrow,
and days when I simply want to disappear into the calm silence of a deer in the forest.
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So no, I’m not one animal.
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I’m a small, slightly chaotic wildlife sanctuary.
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But if I must choose one to add to the list… it would be a butterfly.
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Not because it knows it’s beautiful.
Butterflies rarely pause to admire their own wings.
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They simply move through the world, unaware of the colors they carry…
while the rest of us stop and stare.
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And maybe that’s the quiet truth about many of us.
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We spend so much time noticing the dents in our wings…
we forget someone else is busy admiring the colors.
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Which means the real problem isn’t that we aren’t beautiful —
it’s that we’re terrible at being our own audience.
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—Rajeshwari🧿💕
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