Your animal.

If you could be an animal, what animal would you chose?

For me, the answer is easy, I'd be a bird, an Eagle or Albatross.....to be able to stretch out my wings, feel the gentle pressure of the wind under them and to rise and glide....almost pure emotion attached to movement. Just to drift along with the wind, to slowly lean your body in one direction or the other to change direction, scoring food when you needed, and the rest of the time just cruising...:)
Friends of mine have said they'd like to be a Bear, because of the strength of the animal, others would be dogs or cats, or small "forest animals", each of them having personal reasons as to why they choose the animal they did. For each, whether they realised it or not, their choice of creature was an indication of the person they were/are, alligning themselves with attributes of that respective animal, attributes they either felt they had, or desired.
I had a friend who wanted to be a snail, but I couldn't get my head around that one...lolololol.

As a young man, I read a book called "Jonathon Livingston Seagull", and 38 years later I still have a copy. The copy I have is packed away for my children, and even though they've read it already, and certain seeds planted within their minds, this copy will be a gentle reminder, hopefully, of the life principles held within it's pages.
Jonathon Livingston is a seagull...(ah, duh)...and lives within a flock, however struggles with the idea of a seagulls life of fighting for food, with no hope of anything in life, other than getting as much food as possible.
The one thing he loves is flying, and for hours at a time he will be off along nearby cliff faces, learning about updraft, crosswinds, and how these things effect his wings and flightpattern/path. Because of his love, and the knowledge within him that his desire to learn is righteous, the flock banish him into exile, to live by himself away from the Flock so he has no negative influence.
Even though this book is not long, nor a literary masterpeice, the principles it holds are very worthy, and has effected everyone I know who's read it with an open heart in one way or another. So I don't spoil the story for anyone, I won't disclose any more of the story line.

Jonathon learnt that there are some aspects of life that we cannot alter, ie, we are born, we need to eat and eventually, for whatever reason, when it's our turn, we leave this life and move on.
But those are the basics of life, and it's the principles of what we learn and act, how we open our hearts and look at others, with love, respect and consideration...those are the things which fill the pages of our own individual books.
Every major incident is a "chapter", and each chapter is filled with pages of experiences, hurts as well as loves.
I think the trick for all of us is to be desirous of writing a very large novel, and turn it into a Masterpeice, and not be resigned to your "Lifes Book" being thin and unread, dusty on the shelf without anyone ever wanting to turn the pages. Some chapters will never be opened, or shared with very few, and thats natural, but the greater portion of the book should be filled with joy, love and as many experience as is possible.

Everybodies book is worth reading, the question is, are we prepared to read anothers book as well as sharing our own pages with them.

Just my thoughts.