Do the animals have it better than we humans?

I watch the birds hopping and flying about. They may not think complex thoughts, as we humans ponder, reflect, and appreciate things. But they don’t struggle with life the way we humans do.

Everything they need is right there in nature. And they have a certain freedom which humans don’t have. For the creatures they are, they have, and are, all they need.

On the other hand, we humans aspire, dream, innovate, ponder, reflect, have preferences—maybe appreciate the thought patterns, personalities, quirks of others.

So, who has it better? Humans or the other animals we share the space with?