Lions of Sabi Sands

[BorntobeWild]

(03-06-2023, 01:01 AM)veritas Wrote: Thank you for your friend's reply.
But no matter how much I think about it, I don't understand.

The motherhood that abandoned many babies is shocking.
It's hard to understand why Nana covered it up for another Pride-born big boy.
It's just that the whole story is weird and tragic.
He's just a baby too young.
I feel like he has given up his will to live alone rather than sick or hungry.
How lonely he must have been...I can't forget the poor boy. I'm so sad.
I have 2 hours left to go to work, but I can't sleep even after taking sleeping pills and tranquilizers, I'm so depressed.
I'm crying so much, I have a headache.

Thanks to @ducondona @criollo2mil 

I completely understand your depression. 

Soon after I followed up lions, a most impressive lion died in his prime due to a fight  and I was too sad to even eat food for more than a month, and then,  a famous single mom lioness was killed by two nomad lions , the moment when I knew she was killed, I started shaking for about 15 minutes and could not stop my tears for next few days, thus I had have suffered from depression for more than one and a half years. I am fine now even I have no problem to look back their photo and videos.  

I know you probably can't stop to browse the internet for lions (if you can, that would be the best way), so here is my experience dealing with losses of lions or any animals: 
1: Try not to remember any lion's name as well as dig out any story of a specific lion and pride. This is the reason I don't want give you the names of the lions that I mentioned above.
2: Keep telling yourself this is nature and out of your control. The food chain is designed like this and there is a nothing you can do. If all lions survive and have long lives,  eventually they would starve or fight to death because there were no enough food sources for them.
3: This one might be cruel, but it worked for me. When I was depressed and felt pain, I knew the worst enemy who I fought was myself and I had to faced it. I just follow my heart keeping browsing everyday, over the time, I get used to it.
4: Do outdoor activities as much as you can.

And here I am. When I see a bad news about a lion,  I am sad and yes still depressed, but it will pass and move on in a couple of days.  Hope this is helpful for you. Reply