Christian the Lion

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This video is the work on Anthony "Ace" Bourke and John Rendall, two Australians living in the hip Chelsea section on London in 1969. According to published records. a friend same back from a trip to Harrods and told them that you could buy exotic animals there. 

The two friends went there out of curiousity and spotted a 35 lb. lioin cub in a small cage. The cub had been born in a zoo and sold to the department store, which wasn't considered that unusual back then. 

Bourke and Rendall felt sorry for the cub and hought it for 250 guineas. The store was glad to be rid of it, as the cub had broken out of its cage one night and wrecked havoc on a display of imported goatskin rugs. 

Inspired by the bible and a sense of irony, Rendall and Bourke named the lion " Christian", a name that became even more appropriate when the Vicar of the St. John's Church, which called itseld the " Church at the World's End", gave the young men permission to exercise Christian in the courtyard. 

The opening segments of the video show Rendall and Bourke romping with Christian and playing soccer with the lion. After a year, the lion cub had grown to 185 lbs and feeding him was costing the friends 30 pounds a week. in 1970, that was a lot of money. they knew that they would not keep Christian, but didn't know what to do with him. 

As luck would have it, actors Bill Travers and Virginia Mckenna dropped by the furniture store where they lived. The couple had just finished filming "Born Free", the inspirational story of Elsa, the lioness who was reintroduced into the wild. They suggested that Rendall and Bourke contact George Adamson in Kenya who runs a wildlife sanctuary. 

Rendall and Bourke flew with Christian to Kenya, where they and George Adamson introduced the lion to his natural habitat. When they felt sure Christian had a new family and a safe territory, the two friends went back to their lives in London. The kept in touch with Adamson and made a few visits to Kenya to see Christian from afar. 

In 1974, Adamson lost touch with Christian for 3 months. When he told Rendall and Bourke, they decided to make one last trip to Kenya to attempt to say goodbye to Christian. The night before they arrived, Adamson said, Christian suddenly reappeared and sat on a rock outside the naturalist's camp, as if waiting for his friends.

The main part of the film was shot on the following day when Rendall and Bourke arrived at the sanctuary. Men and beast spent time together and Christian returned to the wild the following day, never to be seen again. 

Hypocritical Bitch

I really have not thought about this before as who am I as a person. One thing that I'm ascertain about my own believe is integrity. Till now, I belief it is important to live up tour own principle and conscientiousness that we believe in, that makes us unique as an individual. Of all things we have done and experienced in life, we shall let go of the errors, mistakes and the hurtful experiences, open the door for the hapiness to flow in and live life to the fullest.

I treasure honesty and trust as the basis to establish a healthy friendship, and in return I will do the same. 

I guess life is too short to keep lingering around the past that is not real to the present. I choose to keep it open, and be flexible, adaptive of how thins happen in the surrounding and enjoy every moments of it whether is is pleasant or not. As long as i keep it simple for myself, not to complicate the situation, life is so much simpler and easy to live with. In short, guess simplicity, optimistic, holding high with my own principle ( at times complicate things), and what else adaptive, flex, reasonable and easy going will be the few key items to describe ME. Hope that's clear your doubt of me!

This is an excerpt from a self description of someone I know. 

It is so full of shit that it makes me annoyed. This person, who talks about integrity like she lives and breathes it, and yet, does not have an ounce of it. Trying to be all righteous and wise.... if this is really who you are, everyone's life would have been simpler. 

You TALK, but you do not DO....

So don't go preaching this bullshit as if you really believe it.

And if you do, then I feel sad for you. Because who you think you are, is not who you really are. 

I sound hateful and I know it. But I do believe that you have to know yourself before you go preaching to others. Know your flaws and your strengths. Don't say you're something you're not. If you wanna post something about yourself up for the public to see, you gotta know that it's like a life interview. If you lie about something, people are gonna know eventually, so better be truthful or pay the consequences for it!

Colbie Caillat - Bubbly