Some time ago at night I met a large group of wild boars, traveling along the road near my home. They looked rather frightened and upset, and this may have resulted from the lights flashed on each side and the noises of cars rang out. In spite of everything, the wild boars managed to cross the road safely, but in this confusion they strongly damaged the fence to cross to the other side of the forest. I watched the whole incident as an observer and it looked quite strange. Well, because a group of wild boars passing through the zebra crossing isn't an everyday sight. But I think that, in that situation when wild boars appeared on the road, all the drivers should stop and let boars to go to the other side, but in this case not everyone did the same and the animals suffered a big shock. They could at least understand a little about the situation of these poor animals.
Art may or may not be beautiful. It may or may not be close to such feelings as suffering or love. In my opinion, art should have the right message and content from the author. To force observer's to think. Often in public opinion we hear that many works are "ugly" and "eccentric", and these works very often getting awards. In the eyes of critics of art or some people it looks completely different and they see the main message in the author's work and appreciate his creativity.
Make the description of the event shorter and focus on the reflection. Make it more developed, deeper, you can get further away from the very observation that was your starting point, e.g. reflect on people's attitude to animals or general habits of Polish drivers.
OdpowiedzUsuńWild boars crossing the road definitely isn't an often view, but I heard some stories about wild boars in Warsaw from my friends. I agree that drivers should stop and enable the animals save walk, they could cause an accident. But maybe they thought that if they stop, wild boars will attack their cars. When I was reading your post I thought about quite popular films with ducks crossing the road, but people often helped them stopping the cars.
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