Reflective essay on the video "Spring"

Have you ever killed an innocent living thing?
If you did, you should see this  video, "Spring"


To give a brief summary of this video, this is about one child learning an important lesson from the monk. As you see in this video at the beginning, the child fastened a heavy rock to the fish, snake, and frog. He didn't knew that the thing he had done, can kill lots and lots of living things. While the child was doing this cruel things, the monk was watching. The monk decided to teach a child a lesson, so he tied a rock on the child's back while he was sleeping. When the child woke up, he finds out that the rock was on his back and tells the monk to get rid of it, but the monk said he should save the fish, frog and snake first if he wanted his rock off. He finds the fish, frog and snake at last, but he noticed a very shocking thing, that three out of two were dead! The video ends with a crying child holding the bloody snake.

  Sorry that my summary was too long, but here's the point. What do you think the video was trying to teaching us? Almost all of you will answer that the video was teaching us something about life . This may be true, but. I think the video was giving us a lesson that  there is  nothing important than having an experience. For instance, the video showed a child regretting himself due to his experience. This means the video wants us to know that experience is the most important thing in life, and I think that it really is. There are several reasons of it.

   First, it can make children understand better how the others feel.. For instance, I was very rude to my parents, and my parents were very disappointed about me. I thought that I did not did anything wrong, but my parents were misunderstanding me. I felt very sad and depressed all day long. However, I regret myself when I experienced being a mother for one day, and from now on, I could understand my mother better.

    Second, making a child experience is better than the traditional method: hitting and yelling. For instance, suppose that you were being yelled by your parents. How would you feel? You will feel very upset and mad, so you will not regret. Now suppose that you were in the opposite situation. No one is yelling, or hitting at you. Instead, you are just experiencing it by being an other person. Even though you do not regret at the first time, experiencing can make you regret.

     In conclusion, I think the video was giving us a lesson that there is nothing important than having an experience. Of course, traditional method can be useful at sometimes, but I recommend adults to make their child experience the same situation rather than using the traditional thing. Thank you very much for coming to my blog, and here's the video.