What You Can Learn from an Elephant

An elephant to me isn’t just an elephant it’s a beautiful big animal with the biggest heart and open mind. They are represented in many cultures as multiple significant meanings and some that I identify with. The structure of an elephant is obvious to the human eye it’s a huge ass animal with big ears and little tiny eyes, but if you take time to research the background and the reason for their structure you would hopefully become as obsessed with an elephant as I am. Their memories are unbelievable never forgetting the path they went through proving to be wrong and dangerous to them. Although they never fear because they travel in groups that allows them to have each other’s back like a protector. The best part of an elephant is their obedient, careful and calm nature most of the time, for example when the leader of the elephant group calls upon them to do a task they immediately obey and destroy whatever is in their path that could potentially stop them from their duty as well as become blind to the hardship and pain that it is causing them to get there. One main religion that pops up related to an elephant is Hinduism. Hinduism doesn’t worship the animal itself but rather the significance that the elephant represents, obedience to the dharma (the master’s call), ability to not repeat past mistakes, and respect and care towards their peers. The perfect disciple acts like an elephant devotes complete obedience to their master and has small eyes for he does not use the eyes of the actual body but the eyes of the sprit, and has big ears because they listen more than they speak. As well as informing others about their dangerous encounters towards the path of enlightenment. The most interesting part of this whole meaning of one huge animal along with many other animals, personal just minds blows me because I think I’m an elephant on many leaves as weird as that could sound to many people. Although it really shouldn’t for the simple reason that if people thought of all the multiple characteristics that they identify with an animal would be one of them. Elephants weren’t always something I was obsessed with until recently this past summer my outstanding grandma gave it to me and was telling me a lot about why she bought it, so I decided to go into depth about an elephant. Learning about an elephant really opened my eyes to realizing how I would identify myself as a person not the physical attributes of course but the mentality of an elephant, the big ears to listen more than you speak. Listening more than speaking could enlighten you more than you think, hearing the different ideas of others lets you open your horizon on how you potentially see the world, humans, life, and unimaginable things you would have never thought. Listening to one person talk over a period of time or even for a quick second on their tone of voice and how they convey it could answer a question you never thought could be answered, and that’s why I personal have learned how to not react of my first thought but more so listen and take in how it was said and the context on how it was said because I learn more that way and actually develop questions when I think about it or even answer them myself, and that quality comes with being careful and calm. Another main attribute that I personal take in is the unforgettable memory never forgetting the path that once proved to be wrong. That’s a huge characteristic that I hope a lot of people have but sadly some don’t and it’s hard for some to overcome when the wrong path seems to be fun but is probably the worst thing for you. Having the strength and knowledge to remember what’s good for you and what’s bad for you helps you out beyond words can explain. Now of course there are other reason why I identify with an elephant but hopefully you have found some characteristics that you identify with or want to cause essentially we could all be elephants just like we could be anything else if we really wanted to.