I just saw a bird pull a berry of a branch. It reminded me this world didn't have to be cruel.

[Rounded Agony]

I was watching a robin jump around outside, and as it just rained I thought "oh, it's probably looking for poor worms to rip from their home the earth to eat...but I guess it also has to eat...".
But no - there's a tarp down for grass restoration or something (I just rent, idk) so it couldn't get at the ground. Instead, it spied the raspberries growing on the bushes, and sort of hop-flapped up to get one. It pulled it off, and just pecked at it. Then it got another one.

I know birds are omnivores, but I just fucking cried seeing that. Here I was thinking I was about to be subjected to a Rated-G episode of Nature is Metal, but instead I saw an adorable example of life sustaining life. Nothing died. The tree spreads its seed, the bird gets to eat, the worm digs away.

Why the fuck can't this be how it is always? The fact many creatures require the death of others so that they may live is one of my main existential gripes and, among other worse reasons, makes me want to fucking die. Especially because it is clearly not a requirement for life.
As this beautiful nature scene has reminded me with oh-so-much melancholy.​

 

[bankai]

Yeah, OP,I get it.It's raining at my place right now. I'm just looking at the rain and being happy. I know that the rain is more likely to make you depressed lol.But that doesn't really matter. Yes, nature's beautiful. I wish we were all integrated into nature better than we are right now


Nature kind of made us obsolete and Incomplete, if that makes sense.

That's what I feel.Hopefully we can somehow heal and feel better.

 

[Pluto]

 

[getoutgirl]

I've been feeding a pair of mapgies from my window for a couple years now. And I can't claim they've saved my life, but they sure have made it a lot more tolerable in general. Fixed the shittiest of days by just flapping around and demanding cashews at me. Nature does that, birds specially do that to me too. Great moments if sparse, so yep, cherish them. Hope this one lasts for you for today.
here's one for all the birds out there, keep chirping mfers

 

[Doll Steak]

I know how you feel so much, I've never really heard of anyone else experiencing it but I get a bitter sweet sadness seeing any kind of wild animal, they get hunted by larger prey, eaten alive, but why? There are plenty of plants to eat, why hasn't nature gone in that direction and why must any of it even exist at all?

Existence would be so much more tolerable If everything and everyone was a herbivore, It brings me so much mental pain knowing what wild animals go through everyday, the ways they have to live, the ways in which they suffer. Terrible.

 

[GhostInTheMachine]

I've been feeding a pair of mapgies from my window for a couple years now. And I can't claim they've saved my life, but they sure have made it a lot more tolerable in general. Fixed the shittiest of days by just flapping around and demanding cashews at me. Nature does that, birds specially do that to me too. Great moments if sparce, so yep, cherish them. Hope this one lasts for you for today.
here's one for all the birds out there, keep chirping mfers

Magpies are absolutely amazing birds. They're related to Ravens and Crows too, so they're very smart. Birdwatching is a really calming past-time, and the nature trail near me has so many differant species. I'd spend more time there if it wasn't for the damn biting flies.

 

[Coconut7]

I feel this way all the time, I have trouble eating meat myself because of it. Life in general feels like a cruel and pointless mistake. If there was no life, there would be no suffering.

 

[Rounded Agony]

I know how you feel so much, I've never really heard of anyone else experiencing it but I get a bitter sweet sadness seeing any kind of wild animal, they get hunted by larger prey, eaten alive, but why? There are plenty of plants to eat, why hasn't nature gone in that direction and why must any of it even exist at all?

Existence would be so much more tolerable If everything and everyone was a herbivore, It brings me so much mental pain knowing what wild animals go through everyday, the ways they have to live, the ways in which they suffer. Terrible.

Fruit for me is the ultimate sustenance cycle. Plants are also alive - the nature of their existence being so different doesn't matter; they can get sick and die, and western science is slowly catching up on the fact that some can communicate with each other - when I eat a carrot or potato, that's a whole-ass life form. I don't care that it doesn't have a nervous system; Descartes literally entrenched animal cruelty in western thought by carving up a dog and bullshitting that its "apparent" suffering was just some kind of robotic programmed response.

But fruit? Literal gifts from plants. They're obvious. They give easily when ready but not quite when not. They're one of the few original sources of sugar which our brains crave like drugs; certainly the most abundant source without processing. And some are actually filling like avocados. Actually, nuts are also tree gifts - they're just a little less conveniently and beautifully packaged (getting an almond from off a tree and into your mouth is a fucking ordeal, let me tell you). But some fruit seeds have good fats and protein, like those of squash and pumpkin!

Otherwise yeah, even some giant herbivores aren't safe...elephants are huge and strong but lions eat them. Maybe also rhinos? Not sure if lions fuck with those. Probably lots of other examples I don't know of...