The Circle of Harmony & Friendship
Some time in the not so distant future, right after all the optimists had gone into space and all the pessimists lay buried in the earth, a high-flying bird swooped down and caught a careless worm sticking up its body over ground. A tasty morsel for those on the go!
A dog watched this, thinking, ”Oh, that bird would sure be nice to chomp on.” But as the dog couldn’t fly the bird was safe; deep inside one’s own element there is always more good luck. The dog walked away, sniffing something new on the ground. Wait… Something smells really interesting over there… What could it be?
A cat was ecstatic about having caught the bird while it was cleaning its beak in a little puddle. The cat, hiding in a bush, jumped out, and pawed the bird to the ground; jamming its tiny teeth where it hurt the most. Paralyzed yet flapping, the bird tried to scream out its agony but to no avail. Its last sensual impression was seeing the cat’s bloody face and then…
The dog jumped the cat (and the bird) and pawed it to the ground; jamming its large teeth where it hurt the most. Fighting back was hard because the dog was big and its teeth and claws ripped and tore and then suddenly the cat couldn’t feel anything anymore. The last thing the cat saw was a human being approaching the scene…
”Good dog! That’s a good dog!” Although busy with its feasting, the dog found it best to cuddle up just a moment with this human man being that it had never seen before. Because if it didn’t, the human would beat it to a pulp and eat it, as well as the cat, and the bird, and the worm. No good. Let the human pet me, it thought, and then I can get back to my food.
The human sat down and watched the dog eat. He took out a can from his backpack, opened it, and ate the contents with his fingers. After they had both eaten enough, the human got up. He pulled down his pants, squatted and defecated on the ground. The dog was enthusiastically prancing about, yapping affectionately. As soon as the human had pulled up his pants and taken few steps back, the dog rushed for the warm pile of shit and ate it all up. ”That’s a good dog… You enjoy that, buddy!”
Together they walked onwards looking for other survivors and more food, occasionally stopping and petting each other.
The human realized one thing: ”This bitch is far superior to me. I’ll see what she can find, and if push comes to shove I will kill her and eat her.” The dog presented the human with its most adorable sad face, thinking, ”That asshole is far superior to me. I’ll see what he can find, and if push comes to shove I will kill him and eat him.”
They walked onwards casually towards the sunset horizon. Their vibrations on the ground attracted a gang of worms and other bugs eating a human corpse just below the surface. Little did they know another cat was watching their wriggly bodies emerging in the rain-soaked mud.
It just had to wait until the human and the dog was far enough away.
