Rewriting. Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring.

 Many children may have experience of hurting ants with magnifying lenses. Also, not only ants we have experience of “torturing” little animals. In the movie, especially the part for spring, illustrates this type of childish experience. The master gives a boy a moral lesson that all living things are equally valuable. In addition, monk teaches him that the pain that is given to others can be returned. Although the movie itself is expressing the lessons with animals, let’s expand it to the case of our lives to the human society.

 According to the Jewish rabbi their religious teachings can be confined as one sentence, “Do not force others to do thing you do not want to do.” In my opinion, this sentence can be interpreted with the movie’s lesson.

 The stone represents the thing that is hard and sometimes it can be very painful. Connecting stone with other animals by string can be shown as giving or forcing painful tasks to others. Usually, many people give pain to others. It is hard to notice that we gave other a painful experience. Since it is through our conversation and it is easy to be forgotten.

 Like the boy in the movie did. I gave pain to others. When my mother asks me to do work with my sister, I rejected and I argued my condition. But, now, I think that my behavior was too selfish. In that time mother was too busy to help my sister’s assignment. Compared to mother’s condition, I had plenty of time to help my sister but by rejecting it, I gave mother another duties. This means that I hadn’t thought about mother. Not only for mother, but also to my friends, if I had effort to understand other people’s situation I would not give them painful experiences.

 I rarely work hard to understand other’s condition. So there are some misunderstandings and conflicts. To avoid this painful chain, I think I have to think other friends more. In addition, I have to be patient. Without deep understanding, I might not be able to cure others pain.