The friendly blackbird

We have in the garden a blackbird which is so tame, courageous or plain stupid that it hops around the garden if your standing there, right up to your shoe showing no fear at all. Its amazing and quite heart warming to see what is quite a fragile creature so sure of its self, even seemingly interested in this bloke standing there.
We have a side to our nature that softens to animals, dogs and cats are a prime example of how we characterise them with a human conscience, we love them therefore they must love us. We identify with them, we talk to them, we feel their pain and yet this transference of our own personality which we often attempt to do on other humans is clearly illusory. The assumptions we continually make as to our connectivity with the world is severely limited, if for no other reason than our grasp of the world around us, including our pets and other humans, is dependant on us and the way we interpret what we see. We judge everything through the filter of our experience so the question of what is real and what is false is academic since one persons take on the subject will differ greatly from another.
Society can only work if there are laws which govern the generality of conduct and these laws will never please everyone, nor be in keeping with the ongoing changes in society as it copes with a changing world.
Nothing is static and as one gets older one is faced with the fact that the norms we lived our lives upon are far less relevant to the present, which, unless we learn new tricks we will find ourselves in danger of becoming irrelevant.