What if we just stopped thinking so much
and just felt?
Animals eat food and stay healthy without thinking,
and some have brains the size of peanut shells.
The ability to think
and analyze
and control
and predict the future
and imagine
has made the human race rule the world.
But it has also destroyed our peace.
What if we acted like deer?
What if we ate when we were hungry,
found a community,
made a family we protected,
and didn’t say a word?
What if we just felt
and lived in nature?
What if our duty and purpose on this earth
wasn’t to change it
or save it
or make it better?
What if our bodies weren’t given to us
to change
or save
or make better?
What if we just felt?
What if we just enjoyed?
Maybe then humans would find peace
like the deer.
Ali Walks Around 