Inspired by the  WP Prompt: Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?

It would be great to say that I know my spirit animal is a cat, or a snake or a bird or maybe even scarab beetle.

I think it would be fantastic to be a Scarab Beetle living it’s life in pyramid with stories painted on the walls and etched into wrappings wound artfully around  the mummified remains of  a person encased in a wood sarcophagus that speaks of the living form it once had,   with it’s wide unblinking eyes staring into the darkness.

I understand the  Scarab Beetle’s life, because I used to work with the dead. I think I could live among them comfortably too.

But if I had to to chose which animal I am the most like as I am right now- it would be the Werewolf.

French villagers hunt a werewolf

I know my nature is split in two. I know that one part of me is calm, reasonable, empathetic and I guess I’ll say human.

But I know, as sure as I know that I am that calm and reasonable person who likes to eat seafood  nachos, that there is another part of my nature that is not reasonable, or calm. It doesn’t smile, it doesn’t cry out and funny to say- it never flinches or blinks.

It does howl though. Sometimes I can hear it just before I fall asleep at night and before I wake up in the morning.