I am a bird-like man. Not because my face looks like a bird, which actually, it doesn’t. Not because I have hairy arms and legs like a bird’s down, Not because I am so attractive that people come to me only for my beautyーI do not have that kind of attractiveness. No, I am a bird-like man because I live freely, under the law, as a bird flying in the blue sky. Because I live restrictively, under the constraint of the law, as a bird in a locked cage. Because I like looking at people’s behaviors from a distance, as a bird might do. Because the only way to express myself is to sing songs which no one can ever sympathize with, as does a bird without any feathers in a locked cage singing songs which no human can ever understand.

We might seem different. I am a human; birds are birds. But we both are living in a contradictory world. Some say that humans are living really freely, while other say that they are living a world restricted by rules or morals. Some use birds as metaphors for freedom while other use them as metaphors for restrictiveness. Now we seem similar.

Still there are so many things that I can do that birds can’t do and so many things that birds can do that I can’t do and so many things that I do that they don’t and so many things they do that I don’t. I can run fast, but they can’t. They can fly in the sky, but I can’t. I can play instruments, but they can’t. They can sing beautifully, but I can’t. I eat them, but they don’t eat me. They eat worms, but I don’t. I use the toilet, but they don’t. They lay eggs, but I don’t. I wear clothes, but they don’t. They make nests, but I don’t.

But I do, they do, and we all do live in this contradictory world, which seems really free but is also restrictive, which seems really independent but is also interdependent, and which seems really trustworthy but is also traitorous. So I am a bird-like man.