Bear is my Friend!

     “I love bears and I want to a bear.” There is this one guy, Timothy Treadwell, who wanted to live with bears for the entire life. He lived in the forest with bears, only with a little camp that can hardly sustain his daily life. Timothy brought video tapes which can record his life with bears. He believed he can communicate with bears as well as foxes which he thinks as his closest friend. It was really dangerous to live close to bears because nobody knows when the bears going to attack. However, Timothy treated bears as a friend and he tried to touch and have conversations with bears. Along the video tapes, there were quite dangerous situations and this might be the reason why he died in 2003 by bears.

     I have seen many people who love animals and live with animals all day. Even, some of my friends love animals like dogs, cats and many pets that can be raised by humans.. They really do love pets. However, I have never seen a person who likes bears, which is predator of many animals and want to be a bear. It was really shocking to find out the fact that there is a person who wants to be a bear. I suddenly thought about a wolf man and I thought living with wild animals are only some subjects of making movies or horror videos. After getting shocked for few minutes, I changed my perspective. What if Timothy Treadwell was my best friend? Am I going to allow him to live with bears? I say definitely no.

     I might stop the relationship with that friend in order to make him notice that it is a serious issue. I don’t want my friend to be killed by wild lives and I am a person who thinks there must be a line between animals and humans. Animals can be pets but they cannot be a “real friend” of a person. They cannot have conversation or give and receive some feelings. It will be dangerous when a person crosses that line. People who crossed the line between humans and animals will get socially abandoned or hard to live a harmonious life with other people. It is because they think different from other normal people. For example, Timothy Treadwell only had one friend who gives food and shelter to him and his only friends are bears. Almost everybody in the world who knows Timothy Treadwell, will think him as “insane person.”

     I also love dogs and whenever I see dogs on the street, I try to be nice to them. However, I don’t want to live a life as a dog. There is an old saying in Korea, “If you live a terrible life, you will born again as animal.” I think this statement is partly true because I believe in life after death, and people like Timothy Treadwell might have done wrong acts in his before life. That is why he is living a life similar to bears.

     In conclusion, I hope if there is a person who thinks similar to “Grizzly man”, Timothy Treadwell, please stop them from wherever they are and try to persuade him or her to think again more carefully, There are many people who care about animals and sincerely love animals, but I believe there must be a line between animals and humans so that people can live sociable life with other people.