Reflective Essay: Considerate & Regret

  

A short scene in the movie, "Spring", shows a boy coiling a thread around the fish, frog, and a snake with a rock with it, and his master, who is a monk, keeps watch his behavior. Those animals have a hard time, until, the child who had caused that problem, had come to rescue them. Why did he come to rescue them? It's because his master had said to release the animal from the stone. Also, his master said that he will have a big stone in his heart for the rest of his life if one of the animal is killed. His master had strapped up the rock to the boy when he was asleep. He wanted to tell the boy a lesson. What could it be? It will be about being considerate and try to teach him that when an incident happened, we can't turn it back.

Considerate. What is considerate? Considerate means, 'always thinking of other people's wishes and feelings; careful not to hurt or upset others'. It could also be about thinking by putting oneself in the others shoes. It's a good way to know about 'being considerate' when we change each other's thoughts. In this video, this monk had tried to help the child to do this. He made the child experience the same situation that animal was in. Also, being considerate is very important in social life. When you think of what the others will think before doing something, you can have a proper decision. That happens a lot when somebody asks you for a choice. For example, whether to go to the speech contest or not could be hard to choose if you want to challenge yourself, but if you think what others would think, it will be easier. Thus, one of the lessons will be about being considerate.

The next lesson is that we can't turn something back if we had already caused something that you regret it. I mentioned that this boy had coiled a thread to some animals with a rock tied on it. The next day, the frog was alive, but the other animals were dead. The boy started to cry. He probably felt guilty and would have been shocked that something terrible had happened because of him. That's when we could think about the conversation between the master and the boy. The boy's master had said that he will have a big stone on his heart when one of the animals died. In the movie, 'Amazing Spiderman', the main character's small mistake had made his uncle past away. It was a small fight, but it made other people tremble in horror. He was so frustrated and angry at himself. The lesson-what the master wanted to teach the boy-could be about that we can't turn what we had done.

The monk had did the same thing to the boy which the boy had did to the animal. This means that we should consider others and respect them. He wanted to tell the boy that we should think about what the victims might think. Secondly, the monk said that there will be a big rock in his heart when one of the animals had died. It means that he will feel bad that he had killed an innocent animal. So, it means that we should think what will happen next. I feel horrible and have a lot of stress when somebody or something gets hurt because of me. This video reminded me of some important lessons. How about you?

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