I had problem with internet last night and thus I am posting my article today.
In the past we used to bring black people from Africa to Europe and America and we also enclosed them and used them as slaves. Today we do the same with the animals. From your perspective ( ego perspective ) it looks completely different but within that there is also a similarity because we take other beings by force from their environment and we imprison them in a small cage and we take away their freedom to express themselves freely.
Why do we buy all the exotic animals and keep them at home in small cages ( prison ) ?
Because we want to be cool and show our friends how cool and special we are by having something that they don't have. Apart from this we have an element of superiority ( typical for humans ) and we treat the animals as something less. We don't consider them as beings equal to us who have the right to live freely. We treat them as their masters who can do with them whatever we want. Total separation and abuse but we don't see it this way because we have an energetic veil in front of our eyes which makes us completely blind to see that fact. And thus we look and see the animal in the cage but we don't see that it suffers. The same was with the slaves in the past. We could not see that these people suffered because we didn't see them as beings equal to us and instead we saw them as something inferior. Nothing has really changed since thousands of years. The slavery still exists.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to enclose animals in small cages and keep them in my home; within this I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to realise that I am taking a freedom from the animals for the sake of my entertainment.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself treat the animals as objects without realising that they are beings equal to me who deserve the freedom to express themselves and by enclosing them in the cages I am taking away from them this freedom and this is a form of abuse.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to take for granted a belief that having an animal in the cage in my home is normal; within this I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to realise that by accepting blindly the beliefs and norms of the society I am allowing the abuse and suffering which becomes an automated act.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to be completely blind to the fact that by enclosing the animals in the cage I am taking away from them the freedom to express themselves in the nature and through this I am causing suffering to them; within this I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to realise that my blindness comes from the fact that I have allowed myself to accept without questioning the norms and beliefs of the society believing that the majority is always right and thus I don't have to question it ever.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to desire to be "cool" by showing my friends and colleagues that I have an exotic animal in my home; within this I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to realise that by satisfying my ego to be cool and admired by my friends and colleagues I am allowing the suffering to the animals by taking them away from their home ( nature ) and enclosing them in in the small cage.