I won't lie, I was very scared. Fear circulated as shivers along my cold skin. It was the winter of 1990, and I was on a skiing trip with my mates when I lost my way and my friends. I decided to seek refuge in a homely cave nearby. Wrong choice. I was not the only inhabitant, the original was a giant brown grizzly bear. Scared shitless, I hid behind a large stone and waited. The bear went along his normal routine as I presumed and I let my guard down. Suddenly it spoke, and when it spoke I trembled and so did the stone floor beneath me. "What do you want?" I had been distracted reading "What to do if you're trapped with a bear in a cave" so it took me a moment to notice the bear speaking the tongue of man. "You came in here to use your phone? Or to attack me?" "I mean no harm I was just lost-" "Are we all not lost on the path of life? How would you define 'un-lost' we know not how we appear or we vanish, a sudden case of serendipitous brings us consciousness and we use it to please our foolish earthly desires. We are sick creatures for we do not wonder about the ethereal only the earthly, we look not beyond the horizon but barely beyond our noses, our repulsive self-worship brings us down and we never learn to adapt, we spread and we breed and we devour everything we are blessed with, so tell me my friend are we all not lost?" I searched the handbook for philosophy bear. "A fucking savage creature speaks your tongue and you want to look it up on your phone? How distracted and foolish is man? I underestimated you, I gave you a chance and you failed. Too scared to let go of your earthly possessions, this will be your fallacy that brings you down. Lessons are given to you in life so you can learn, so open your blinded eyes and learn." I was stunned, this beast knew better than me of life. I put my phone down, he smiled. I picked up my gun and aimed at his head. "Go ahead, you will only kill a bear." He didn't have to tell me twice. I made a fire and a meal from his corpse that lasted me a week, it tasted better than beef. Unfortunately the stench of his splattered crimson blood now a wine-like tone attracted creatures of the forest. They came abruptly and quick. They made of me what I made of him, a delicious meal.