Even though I've only recently come across fursuiting, to me it means being able to be free from the restrictions and burdens that life brings.
It allows me to escape and to just breathe without society demanding that you fit into a "type" or act a certain way.
Fursuiting offers creativity and pushes imagination, something I think people lose very quickly as it's often seen as infantile.
Fursuiting to me symbolises that which can never really be attained, something that wildlife has and people have long lost, and that's true freedom.
People often assume that money buys freedom, it may take you on holiday where you feel free but buys only material happiness.
I think even though to me it's a hobby, there are aspects that are more than a hobby, for example alot of my fursuits are canids particularly wolves.
It's my way of honouring not only wolves as they are truly beautiful animals but it also honours my ancestry as wolves play vital parts in the myths and legends I was brought up with.
And for that short while in a fursuit I feel free and unburdened
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