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Leadership

down an investment or close down
a farmland just because it belongs to
a foreigner. And then leave the very
land unused after the destruction.
The foolishness of human minds is
so very displayed everywhere in our
world in a performing art just like
the elephant and its big itchy bum.

Life is too short
Yes you heard it. Life is too short
This is a better option for scratching a bum than killing a tree. Photo: Caters (mirror.co.uk) for foolishness but long enough
to live a wise and a productive one
which generations unborn can talk
the wild was just so that this huge citizens of other nations, why lead-
elephant could scratch an itch in its ers treat their citizens awfully, why about for good. We all just need to
bum. racism is still poking our eyes, why a know and also understand that this
group of faceless idiots will impose earth and all its content belongs
All for an itch a pandemic on the entire globe and first, to God and then to all of us.
We can’t live and behave as if the
I watched this elephant do what it why the madness in the world is not sun rises in the morning and sets
did and I was really impressed at the ending even with all the noise about in the evening because we said so.
intelligence displayed but dismayed ending it. The answer I think is sim- Nor can we live and behave as if
at the destruction it left in its path. ply because they think they can. And there is anyone among us who can
The entire thing looked like a per- it’s that simple really. tap themselves with their own hands
forming art and purely so it was. So, to wake up in the morning. It’s very
I love the art displayed but I dislike For instance the mighty elephant clear for whoever wants to see that,
the act, for it is a waste of a fine tree would have found a different way to we are crushing our world under
just to scratch an itchy bum. scratch its bum if it did not have the the weight of egos and unnecessary
The question now is this, how many power and the mass to bend and fell pride which are almost all the time
times have we as humans made de- that tree. And who in the entire jun- founded on emptiness and futility.
structive decisions and choices just gle would have stopped it from do- What shall it profit a man if he gains
so that we can pacify the itch in our ing it? Is it the tree? It’s very helpless the whole world and loses his soul,
egos? How many senseless wars and against such power. Is it the humans his humanity, his sanity etc., is not
how much destruction have nations watching in awe at the back of the just an admonition for Bible Chris-
carried out on other nations just so truck? No they can’t stop it. They tians alone, it’s for every human on
that they can prove they have better are both afraid and also enjoying the earth. So, you can hate God all
war equipment? How many land and the show, which is why I was able you like and dismiss the Bible ten
water bodies have been destroyed to see the video. And definitely not times over, the principle remains the
through pollution just so that we the other trees, they are too stuck in same and applies to everyone. Men
can prove that we have the power to their positions to help. do reap what they sow and it’s not
mine oil and natural resources with- But this is the picture of our society debatable. For he who sows egos,
out any consequences? How many in which the strong prey on the pride, foolishness, waywardness,
mindless policies have governments weak just so they can scratch some corruption etc., will definitely reap
of the world made just to under- itchy bum of their pride and foolish the fruit of futility. But he who sows
mine and make mockery of others minds, and that because they know love, empathy, compassion, kind-
and satisfy their own egos? that justice is just some words ness, joy, true beauty of the heart
When I looked at that video and written in some books with men etc., will definitely reap a crown of
what the elephant did, I asked my- and women who are wearing some wisdom and glory that generations
self why. The answer is just the very funny looking colonial wigs talking after him or her will love and honor
same answer you find when you ask about what is written and not about in absentia.
why people do what they do and what actually happened that required
treat others like trash, why nations justice. So they are like the elephant.
behave the way they do towards They can demolish a building, shut

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