So I walked to Romford and back again, in order to get photos for my passport (They fuss about sizes, background etcetera so I use the Romford photo booth as I know they usually fit the requirements fine.). Legs and feet aching (Bones still seem pretty weak despite regular intake of Vitamin D.) but glad I am still healthy in other ways-not out of breath at all, if my bones had been stronger I could have walked home far quicker. In fact, my whole trip would have been much shorter had there not been an engineer tinkering with the photo booth for a little while. When our friend left everything was apparently working as I received my photos fine. It was the journey to Romford that concerned me most. Walking near Romford cemetry (I was deeply desiring to see Natalie's grave but for some reason I could not do it.) I saw a dead fox. The immediate and unexpected display shocked me. It was so...out of place. Of course, a dead anything anywhere is sad...but seeing it near the bus stop unnerved me and immediately made me think about the selfishness of some humans. The fox simply looked "paused." There was no blood...or obvious sign of injury...but it most definitely was not sleeping. But it was not in a forest...I could accept it if it was...well, no, death does scare me when it is connected to someone else's life...but I would be reminded that this happens...animals kill to eat...kill for sport...and so on...and sadly we are little different when we get hungry. But the shock was seeing him/her just laying there...it was wrong...I should have picked it up and put it somewhere nicer but it was so unexpected. It was no longer there on my walk back...so somebody had "taken care of it," and I really hope care was involved. Why should kindness end with death? This poor fox had probably starved to death! In a world we created. Taunting them by leaving the odd bits of nature here and there but not enough for them to stay comfortable. If we are not going to look after these creatures as much as we do one another then we should at least build a sanctuary for them. Imagine if you were a fox and had to rummage though dustbins looking for food? If you have been extremely poor you may have had to do that, not easy, I imagine? This is not acceptable- for human or for animal. Sure, it may be hard to make sure every single animal has a suitable home and adequate food supplies, although we can try everyday to make it a reality. But the problem here is ignorance and fear. I shudder to think at how many may have taunted the dead animal as they passed it, on their way to the shops and cinema. Spare a thought for a friend? It died. No-one knows how or when...but somewhere there is another animal deeply upset. How dare some humans believe intelligence and love lies only with humans. Am I insane? Are YOU insane? A fox is crying tonight, I'll hope that some humans will be too, but I fear you'll be too busy to spare a thought for a "just a fox." I know some of you out there DO care. I have seen some of the good humans are capable of. But it is the others that I fear. The animals even breath the same oxygen as and will even approach us, on occassion, and still you wish to seperate us from them. We ARE different. But it is your motives that I have a problem with. Generalising about all foxes being murders rather than pointing out that all foxes are...well foxes, it's a natural observation, as is all blondes are...blondes...men are men... It's a label designed to reference, not to be filled with negativity. Maybe you will say I am blinded, maybe this fox had hurt someone. So I, in turn, should mimic its style? I do not regret my innate selflessness. Yes, sometimes in the past I was too trusting but it was the people who abused that trust who were deluded, not I. I have made mistakes, that was not one of them.