a squirrel's thought

Last week while a blizzard was in progress, I imagine a squirrel stuck in a particularly cold winter with less than usual amount of food.  Would it remain in its little burrow determined to stoically take all the pain and hunger winter will dish out?  There are two possible outcomes: if it can withstand this winter, it will be weakened but happy to survive another season; if its corporal body cannot withstand the cold and hunger, it will starve and freeze lonely and helplessly.  But what would be the point?  It was given an evolved brain for survival.  It should seek out warmer shelter; or bunk up with another of its kind.  It should know winter from summer; that it can plan ahead and store food in the autumn in anticipation for the winter.  Its brain has evolved for this; so has the human brain.  Of course the human brain is more complicated but this allows many extraneous thoughts to taint the primitive and fundamental desire of living being to thrive.

Blog Revival

For the new year I will revive this blog.