“There is something in him, he doesn’t seem dangerous at all. I am afraid butI don’t really feel fear, I’m excited, I feel a needle piercing my senses and I am fully alive. In rapture, you might say.

There is something that transcends the human condition: the face to face encounter with one of nature’s greatest killers and even more surreal is the possibility of touching one, of petting one just like he is the regular house kitty. I know that tigers dont exist for my own entertainment or to rapture my sense of reality, I know! I also acknowledge that being a tiger that is petted hundreds of times a day by strangers might be boring and not as nearly exciting to him as it is to me. I am just another tasty human being, but he was is my first tiger.

These is one of those occasions that I’d to throw my moral rigidity away and embrace my own selfishness and rascality. The experience overruns every possible argument.

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