[ID: a digital drawing of many different animals and plants in a simple style in grey, including opossum, owl, snake, seal, panther, chicken, monkey, bat, turtle, squid, scorpion, frog, penguin, jellyfish, and more. they surround the words "every other being is as real as i am" in light blue capital letters. end.]
Why am I me and not someone else? Does everything have its own "me"? Living beings see from only their own perspective, but we can observe our fellow beings and imagine - what is it like to exist as a cat or an oak tree? They're all out there having their own experience of existence that I could never come close to understanding with human senses. But does that mean those experiences are less important than mine? Maybe from my own perspective, presumably not from theirs.
Anyway, that line of thinking results in drawings like this one - an obvious truth that we can perhaps forget at times when our empathy fails. How many different living things can you identify in this drawing? :)
