I had a poster in my old apartment, that I ended up selling to my landlord.
It was a picture of a bear in the middle of a stream, catching fish that were swimming and jumping out of the water.
In this image, you have two creatures that are clearly in opposition, and both of them are struggling to resist the flow of the water to avoid being caried downtream.
When I ask whether people are closer to the bear or the salmon, I get a lot of different answers, usually related to their mentality or their upbringing, but what I've never heard from anyone else is my own answer and reasoning.
I don't want to be the bear that catches salmon, it's too easy.
I don't want to be the salmon in the clutches of the bear, it's fatalist and we all know what will happen.
I want to be the salmon that gets past the bear, and mates, and lives a good life until he floats to the bottom, spent.
That is what I would choose.
Originally posted on Bubblews.com at http://www.bubblews.com/news/9763171-which-one-is-more-like-you
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