Beautiful and unexpectedly poignant. I thought this was a lovely description of the “circle of life”:

> First you are young and look for your place in life; then you are strong and work on your projects; then you slow down; and finally you become part of all there is before you were born.

> Through spending time with them, I learned that mice are not the kind of beings that most humans think they are.

The same is true of every animal, I find - not only mice, and certainly including humans.

I recommend gerbils - they don't piss all over the place.