5 Things I Learned from my Trip to the Zoo

Last week I went to the zoo with the boy I am in love with. This was after about 6 months or more of planning and laziness. Ish is about learning and this is what it taught me:

1. TV lies. Animals are way bigger than you think! You know those dreams you have of going to 'Africa' and playing with lions and chimpanzees? Stop that ish. Those things will sit on you and kill you. And also eat you.

2. Wear proper walking shoes. Also don't take a huge bag filled to the brim with the heaviness of your life.

3. Go with company. Most preferably someone that knows where everything is because he/she has been there a gazillion times before and knows you well enough to tell you to avert your eyes when you come to the creepy snake display.

4. Take a book and read while you lounge at the zoo cafe where you will go to rest your feet and enjoy the lake-y breeze thingy.

5. Relax and enjoy it because if you are with that someone from #3, he will not mind that you stare at the parrots for such a long time, talk out loud to the Shoebilled Stork or cry a little for the eagles that can't fly away.

Bonus lesson - Go again. Go to other places. Make plans and do things. Life is short and whatever.

Kiss somebody today and mean it.