Live and Learn (Week 6)

Since I was a little girl, I've always been fascinated by elephants. If you weren't given a whole history briefing, you wouldn't think them to be gentle giants. You'd imagine these giant beasts to be destructive and maneaters because of their size and demeanor, yet we're the ones causing them harm. We as humans are always quick to judge when we already know that nothing is as perceived. 

Elephants are the most loving creatures I know, and they pretty much give all they've got for their young. I once watched national geographic and it mentioned they take over 2-3 weeks to mourn the loss of their loved one, and are the only animals to die over a broken heart. To actually die from a broken heart - how crazy does that sound? "This makes sense when you remember that we all come from the same love." (Holden, 85), this quote from Holden made so much sense to me because we are all capable of love, and we are all from and surrounded by it all the same, it might be interpreted and represented differently by various different personalities and people, but we are all similar it that of wanting love and to be loved. Like elephants, we are gentle and careful with the ones we love. We want the best for them and on occasion mourn of what we've lost. Elephants, humans or any living creature is capable of feeling and being loved as it is in our innate nature to carry on that emotion so we can feel less alone in such a big world. It's been years and years of teaming together to create the society we live in today, animals and humans alike. This is why I'm so in awe of elephants because they're just like us. They're different, yet still so similar - capable of love and the feeling of loss.

What if humans and animals weren't capable of living in harmony with one another? Would we have created the society we live in today? I'm sure all of this came from not one person but so many of us combined. We give in to our sense of longing for companionship and together we create this world that we didn't believe existed if it were just one of us doing it alone.