You got to choose

Because there are things we feel but
cannot express them, and because there
are people we love but cannot let them
know, and because sometimes we accept
what we have rather than go for what we
truly deserve; only human beings of all
animals have learned to cry. Because we
have places to go, and because we want to
get there fast, and because we elect the
path of less resistance, we have such moral
bends and twists and corners; for it is the
path of less resistance that is responsible
for twisted rivers. Because we want the
best for ourselves, and consolidate more
than what we truly need for our need, only
human beings suffer obesity. In nature,
animals eat just what is enough. I have
never seen a wild thing that suffered from
obesity. A fly goes about its life, unaware
of the power of Mortein Doom. A mosquito
sings even as it comes to boldly siphon our
blood, completely unaware that it could be
swatted off in an instant. No, nature has
no self-pity or esteem or ego issues. Only
human beings suffer such abominations.
And perhaps that is why it has been said
that human beings have the power to be
higher than angels or lower than animals.
So where are we? Higher than angels or
lower than animals? You choose.