Essay posting

     When I see my younger relatives, they sometimes enjoy making fun of small creatures near them. They throw stones at the birds, throw bugs into the sky, and even simply kill them. It is very hard for adults to teach them not to belittle the preciousness of life. Since they just can't understand what animals will feel if attacked and tortured. In fact, I even don't yet understand perfectly what the value of life is.
     In the film "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring", there's a boy living with a monk in a small temple located in the middle of a lake. One day, when playing in the mountain, the boy came up with a idea that it would be fun to tie animals with stone. He actually tied a fish, a frog and a snake with stone so that the animals couldn't move their body freely. The monk, who is like a father of that boy, was watching all the misdemeanors the boy had done. So, the monk, with the idea of teaching the boy a lesson, did exactly same thing to the boy while he was sleeping. The boy woke up in the morning and found himself tied up. He begged to the monk to free him, but the monk replied to him that he will untie him if he untie all the animals which he bounded yesterday. The boy went to the mountain again to free the animals, however, he could have saved the frog only.
     When I was watching the film, the memory of my childhood suddenly haunted. The memory of seeing my friends dropping a baby chicken from the roof of a high apartment building. Although what I was a short moment of falling, I was really shocked at the moment of sudden elimination of a life. I felt uncomfortable at the fact the I might also have done the very same thing that my friends did. Just like the boy in the movie, I cried alone in the room after watching the scenery of the death regretting all my mistakes. The lesson of the experience was that the value of life is the most sacred thing, so it cannot be invaded in whatever situation. Also, I think that the monk's lesson to the boy isn't limited only to the nature, but also related to the human society. The lesson I found from the monk is that since all entities in the nature are all same in their preciousness, nobody can torment or torture others just because of the difference of physical power.
     It is impossible for humans to measure the value of life due to its enormousness, so it's meaningless to compare it. I hope that all the people in the world figure out that our duty as humans, who can think wisely and make wise decisions, is to fully understand the worthiness of life and to respect all other creatures in the nature and the society with their deepest hearts.