Happy Animals

The book The Questions of Life by Fernando Savater, cites a play written hundreds of years ago. This play Antigone, which we have read before in literature class, has many controversial points of view. Sophocles brings up certainly an interesting theme, stating that the fate of humans is to wonder. I want to zoom in some of the aspects this observation means.

At least I, wonder numerous times. I believe I exist among wonders, creating them and also being part of them. Day by day I live thinking with curiosity, and I'm constantly admired by how the world is. I become aware of all that surrounds me and see the way all those things affect me. I believe humanity has evolved not only in a biological way, but in another level, like spiritually, destroying barriers which block the entrance to other realities.

I was amazed when I read in the book that we are like free animals, because many times before I thought like that. No other animal limit our mental capacities from the inside, and we almost all the times create our context for livehood. It is us who dare to control other beings, and that I presume is a result of our own freedom. I consent that some people look like they do not wonder at all, but deeply and in their own way, they are wondering about things we don't even imagine.
I consider that Sophocles was right to say we wonder, and that yes we are happy animals, because wondering allow us to be marveled, even for one single moment, to feel admiration for something, to feel amazed and to be happy. I consider the world to be as complex as it is wonderful.