Top of the Food Chain

For Christmas, my family got Planet Earth.

No not this one...

THIS one:

Anyway, we've been watching it over this nice little Christmas break, and I must say, it's taught me several things. The *MOST important thing I've learned, is to be grateful that, as a human (albeit a weird one) I'm at the top of the food chain, for the most part. I'm so so thankful to not have to be like the skittish Impala,

living in constant fear of being eaten. I don't want to even THINK about how many ulcer that guy has.

Seriously though, can we please take a moment and be grateful for that? There isn't a great white shark in my neighborhood, ready to strike at any moment. There isn't a sluethy crocodile ready to snatch up one of my older relatives at the watering hole (and drown him for an HOUR before finally eating him). There isn't a pack of dogs, who creepily employ military strategies in taking down a little cousin. There isn't a bear rummaging around my habitat, trying to eat my sweet juicy flesh when all I want to do is return to my homeland to lay my EGGS!

Gosh. I'm grateful that my worries are, "What will happen at work/school today?" instead of "Will my natural predator obliterate me or one of my family members today?"

*The second most important thing is that now I'm afraid of sharks. Crud, like I need another phobia...