My life as a turkey

My life as a turkey, from the BBC Natural World documentary based on the book @Illumination in the Flatwoods’ by Joe Hutto.

‘’ we do not have a privileged access to reality, so many of us live either in the past or in the future; betraying the moment and in some sense we forget to live our lives. and the wild turkeys were always reminding me to live my life. I think as humans we have this peculiar disposition to be always thinking ahead and living a little bit in the future, anticipating the next minute, the next hour, the next day; and we betray the moment….the wild turkeys don’t do that. They are convinced that everything they need, all theirs needs will be met only in the present moment an din this space and that the world is not a better place half a mile further through the woods, it is not better an hour from now and it is not better tomorrow, but that this is as good as it gets…and so they reminded me to do better and not to live in this abstraction of the future, which by definition will never exist… and so we sort of betray our lives in the moment an dteh wild turkeys reminded me to be present, to be here……………’’

watch it here »»>  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/full-episode/7378/