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Why does a bird escape from his cage? That is what we think. We humans, with knowledge of the world outside it, say that to the bird that has only been able to look at it through the glass window. It has no sense of the dangers outside. It does not know that compared to the world, it is small and weak.

Yet we, too, escape from our safe spaces. Throw ourselves into the unknown. We want to discover, we want to be free. Truly one of the many flaws of humans that evolution has not yet cleared.

At first, the bird will feel free. It is positively surprised by the new things around it. Everything it dreamed of while staring through the window is now within its reach. It can fly with all the other birds. It can go wherever it wants to go.

But that doesn't last long. Rain. The sun. Wind. Blazing heat. Freezing cold. It has always lived a lazy life. Now it is being chased down as prey. It cannot find food or water.