Something hit me the other day

When I first came to college, I was really surprised to find that a majority of my friends, if not almost all of them either didn’t care about animals or flat out didn’t like them- and my first reaction was ”Jesus what a bunch of psychopaths”. Then yesterday (the end of senior year…), I realized, because I was home schooled and I wasn’t able to make long term connections with people my own age until I went to go work at the zoo at 16, my entire high school social experience was centered around the zoo. So while everyone I knew in high school (EVERYONE) loved animals with a passion and were concerned with proper husbandry and conservation- those people were the minority, simply concentrated in a small area.And realizing that is weird….