Annie Dillard "Living Like Weasels"

In "Living Like Weasels" the speaker uses her run-in with a weasel as a metaphor for life. The speaker and the weasel share a moment where the speaker says, "I think I retrieved my brain from the weasel's brain, and tried to memorize what I was seeing." The speaker seems to envy the weasel's animal instincts and asks the question "could humans live in such a way?" According to the speaker, yes, humans can. I love how the speaker compares the way a weasel kills its prey to humans finding their passion in life. Like the weasel finding the perfect spot in its preys' neck to strike, humans need to "stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse." The last paragraph of this piece really stuck out to me. As humans, we are all going to die no matter how we choose to live; however, if we find our "necessity" in life and truly grasp onto it, not even death can separate us from it. I found this to mean that by thoroughly connecting ourselves to our necessity, we have the opportunity to be remembered after death.