Turkey and I

The library I've been frequenting to over weekdays and weekends too has an entrance surrounded by glass walls, and there has a corner forged by two giant glass walls.
It was so common in modern building design that I don't remember paying attention until I found a wild turkey cornering there. The wild turkey, as you know, isn't common to be seen these days, especially if you're not dwelling in restrictive native Indian area.

Though I develop goose-bumps for seeing either Turkeys or any kinds of birds bigger than or equal to pigeons, this one made me feel closer to it after having many encounters and realizing its so-to-counterintuitive behavior.

This wild turkey was hanging around back and forth into that corner surrounded by glass walls.
First, I thought it must be looking for foods since it's winter or something to chew on.

One day, when I was about to pass it by without a second look, I happened to see it again through a different perspective, literally through another glass wall. Serendipity! That showed and explained the whole nine yard to me why he was fonding of coming back to that glass corner. From the outside where it was standing, it was reflecting as a mirror, so he was basically seeing himself upon it.

I remember reading some article about how birds think/behave when they see their own reflections on mirror-like objects. they simply recognize them as other birds either hostile or friendly.

Putting all these into my head, I felt sympathetic because he was a loner living out there by himself, and maybe he was missing one of his friends or family which might have been hit by truck or fed by predators and related to him because, under some circumstances, I felt like seeing my family and friends through the lens of myself, not taking as they are. Maybe I was trying to see myself projected into friends and family or expected them to think and behave as I predict them to do within my reasonable boundary.

Seeing and taking others as they are takes a lot of bravery and love. One sitting and caught up in himself like me cannot do with ease because someone like me will keep thinking why they behave as they are, not as I expect them to do with my reasonable and empirical data I've collected.

After all, we are all loners looking for love and care from relationship, but afraid of making commitment and taking it when it takes a wrong turn. I even felt lonely when I was chatting with a girl friend, or my best friend. We are lonely not only because we are apart from others physically, but also because we feel like no one seems to understand us in ways we want to be understood. Sometimes, we feel so distant with someone we love most. that's a big downer.

I appreciate God striking me with this enlightenment out of my usual daily routine, making me feel like actually I'm alive, being side-tracked. Yes, Life is a journey as everyone seems to talk about like a cliche, but no one really know where there are led.

Though this thought of mine or His will eventually loom into my daily life which consumes most of our time and energy. I hope someday when I look down a turkey before saying grace on Thanksgiving dinner table with my family, his dead comrade reminds me of this thought just to entertain(?) my family and friends.