The Fable of a Human Dream


Human Dreams Forest
On a bright and sunny day, Cat and Dog visited their friends Cow, Pig, Elephant and Monkey on a nearby forest.  Where the exact location of the forest was is none of your business. What you should be asking instead is why on Earth are these two together? 

Well, you might not know this, but Dog used to love Cat so much, until Cat chose to friendzone him one day.


And the rest they say, is history...

Cow: Mooh! Long time no see, lovers!

Cat:
?!?

Dog:
!!?

Pig: (Whispers to Cow)
You careless moron, have you forgotten already!?

Cow:
Oh! Well this is awkward. I mean, long time no see, my dear friends!

Cat:
I'm fine, you?

Elephant:
We're good! How about you, Dog?

Dog:
Well...

Cow:
Hmm...I can see you're still the Dog who can't be moved.


Dog
Monkey: WTF?

Dog:
??

Cat:
!?

Pig: *&^%*?!

 

Monkey: Oh, by that I mean 'Where's the Frog'!

Dog:
And why are you looking for Frog?

Monkey:
Uhm...'coz she ain't here? Are we supposed to look for someone that is already on our sight?

Dog:
Woof! Woof!! I'll squeeze your brain out of your skull you crazy hairy creature!

Frog:
Relax! Sometimes it's not just the eye that's looking for something. It's our hearts that tell us what's missing so we keep looking beyond what our eyes can't see.

Monkey:
Oh, ma love, why you always have to ruin ma intro?

Cat:
My love?

Monkey:
Yes, we' exclusively datin' for over a month now, yo'.

Cow:
Huh? You mean Frog dumped the Fox?

Frog:
Yes! Because I can't stand his unfaithfulness anymore. He always longs for his mistresses! Even when we're making love, he keeps on saying their names!

Pig:
Oink! Oink! What does the Fox say?

Frog:
Ming..ming..ming? ming!
          Gering-ding-ringerdingering!
          Wa-po-po-po-po-po-pow!
          Hatee-hatee-hatee-ho!


Suddenly, the quick brown Fox jumped over the lazy Dog. But that has nothing to do with the story, so ignore the Fox. A moment of silence came. The clouds turned gray, the grass turned green, and along came Carabao.
 

Carabao
Carabao: Life becomes better when we take responsibility for our own actions and thoughts.

Pig:
And who is it this time? And your message, Mr. Carabao, has nothing to do with our conversation!

Carabao:
Exactly. The Author summoned me to interrupt your non-sense discussion. He's having a hard time diverting your foolish conversation into something of significant value that
readers can get from reading the story!


Dog:
So you're the main character now?

Carabao:
No, I'm not. I'm just the Carabao. A product of a random thought of the Author. In fact I was to pop out of this story as soon as I deliver my line.

(Poof! And so the Carabao was gone.)

Cat:
Poor Carabao. Is he insured?

Monkey:
Who cares? The care bears?

(Bear who was sitting nearby and was quietly listening to his friends suddenly spoke)
 

Bear
Bear: Whoa! why do you keep on dragging us bears on caring for everyone else when all that we care is the bamboo shoots we eat?!

Monkey:
Oops...Sorry 'bout that big fella!

Bear:
But now that you've mentioned it, my brother bear is still furious with those men who burned the bamboo trees where we used to get our food!!

 

Monkey: Your brotha?

Bear:
No, my sister!! I clearly said my brother, right??

Cow:
What happened?

Bear:
Seriously?? I just told you what happened!! What's going on here??

Cow:
Oh, sorry, I seem to get lost at times.

Bear:
Whoa! An idiot left his cigarette butt on the grass!! Its summer, what was he thinking?! Of course it started a wildfire that ended up burning our bamboo trees!!

Pig:
Now that you've mentioned it...

Bear:
Mentioned what?! And can't you think of another opening line that's not similar to what I have just used??

Pig:
That's not as important as my message. Besides, I'm not used to talking about
interesting stuffs, so bear with me, Bear.


Bear:
Fine, bring it on!!
 

Pig
Pig: If the great Creator intended these people to smoke, shouldn't there be something like a small chimney at the back of their heads?

Cat:
Like in houses?

Pig:
Yes! Where it's not mostly visible.

Monkey: "But smokers' noses are up front!


Pig:
That's my point. How fool these creatures must be!

Cat:
But that's what makes them human. I've heard they're good at living on someone else lives, pretending what they're not.

Cow:
Do you think they smoke to pretend that they're chimneys? Or to pretend what they're not?

Dog:
Hey, we're not supposed to make sense! We're just animals, remember that!

(Chicken came down flying from a branch of a nearby tree.)
 

Chicken
Chicken: Why? Because we're just animals, and they're superior to us?

Dog:
Woof!

Cat:
And what exactly does that mean?

Dog:
I mean, yes!

 

Chicken: No! I refuse to be inferior to everyone else; I was created for an equal purpose! And if that purpose would bring me to the table of these fools, so be it. I know I have served my purpose well!

Elephant:
But no one is entitled to belittle you without your own consent. Inferiority is just a product of your own thoughts.

Monkey:
Says a genius whose brain is as little as size of a peanut.

Elephant:
That may be true, my friend. But sometimes the more intelligent you become, the  more afraid you are to understand your life's purpose. So you keep studying and focus on what others do without realizing your own path. If you're born a chicken, a dog, a cat or whatever the case may be, it's fine to live life as it is.

Bear:
And what if you're a human??

Elephant:
They gorgeously claim that they're the highest form of animals, right? So it's not good to live a pre-formatted life the moment they were born. That would be an awful way to live!
 

Cow
Cow: Are you saying that fear too is just a product of their own intelligence?

Elephant:
Yes. It's what holds them back. Because the more intelligent they become, the more their brains are trained to follow what they're told of what they can and can't do. Their fear sets the path of what they're only capable of doing.

Cat:
So they simply ignore unconventional wisdom and seek more traditional intelligence?

Elephant:
Sadly, yes.

Pig:
Oink! Since when did you learn how to talk, Mr. Elephant?

Cow:
The same day you learned how to eat you own product, idiot!

Elephant:
It's not that I don't know how to talk. It's just that I am responsible for my own thoughts, that's why I only speak when I can be of good use.

Dog:
You mean we talk non-sense?

Elephant:
No, we are all authority of something where others are not. You need grass, talk to Cow, need worm? Go to Chicken.

Cow:
So these people..

Elephant:
Yes, they fail to realize what they're great at, claiming all sorts of authority. Yet when they needed a genuine advice, they run to the closest people around them, not realizing that these people were not authorized to give what they need. So the results were frustrating at the very least.

Cow:
I can see that's the reason why many of them settle for less and simply hold on to what they were told to do.

Chicken:
And too busy with their jobs that they forget to even think of another way to live their purpose.

Cat:
Very well said. So who's the one with brain is as little as peanut now, Monkey?

Monkey:
Umm..the dinosaurs...mice? Or humans who don't realize what Elephant said?

(Suddenly, Mouse pops out from a hole.)
 

Mouse
Mouse: Excuse me?

Dog:
You can't blame them. They need to work to survive and live their dreams.

Mouse:
Working to survive is different with working to fulfill your dreams. I go to work on the Author's room to get some old papers for food. I go back to their backyard to dig and build my dream hole.

 

Cat: And I use my claws to eat my dream buffet. Meow!

(Now the mouse and his dream hole is history...and so were the Author's old notes!)

Cow:
But why would you hang on to something if you knew you won't reach your dreams through it?

Elephant:
That means you give-up.

Bear:
How could that be called giving up when all you do is sacrifice and hard work?
 

Elephant
Elephant: Because the more you grow, the little your dreams become. The older you get, the more you conceive lies as life's lessons. So you work harder, then fear becomes more relevant. You're like a tadpole at first. You dreams are as big as your world. You dream of being a shark, or beautiful gold fish or even a turtle. But as days go by, you realize you can't be your dream. So you instead turned into an ugly creature we all call Frog.

Monkey:
Watch your mouth right there buddy!

Bear:
But isn't a tadpole destined to become a Frog??

Elephant:
Of course. It is what it is. But for these humans, it's a different case. They give-up and sugar-coat it by calling it the process of accepting reality.

Dog:
Woof! So they just forget their dreams?

Elephant:
Yes. They just go with the flow in order to live. They work to get something in return.

Dog:
Just like me, doing everything for them for a piece of bone?

Cat:
Yes, but for humans, it's money. Money controls them, yet they're too stubborn to admit that money is not important to them. They work to have money. Their work dictates their life. Their work tells them what time to wake-up, what they can have for dinner and how far they can go.
 

Monkey
Monkey: But why would they let something or someone control their path, purpose and dreams?

Elephant:
What do you do when you're lost?

Monkey:
I ask for direction, of course. Oh wait! I get it now! You mean these humans don't ask??

 


Elephant: They do. But they either ask the wrong questions or they ask the wrong people.

Cat:
Is that the reason why when they get lost, they think that there is no other way to go?

Elephant:
Yes. And sometimes, they don't even ask for another way. They just take the path!

Monkey:
But if you knew someone who took the path before you and saw how miserable his life was by taking that path, why would you still want to take the same path?

Bear:
Isn't that stupidity?!

Cat:
I'd rather call that fear.

Dog:
Fear from what?


Cat
Cat: The fear of uncertainty. They fear to go where no one has gone before. Or when someone made it to the other path, they simply call it luck. So they go on their chosen path just to survive life, and not to live their dreams. They fear uncertainty like everyone does. But not everyone is wise and brave enough to face that uncertainty.  How could they know? They keep on asking the wrong people!

Dog:
Then how came they're superior to us if they fail to realize these simple things?

Elephant:
Because they can do something so great none of our combined ability could ever do.

Chicken:
And what is this ability?

Elephant:
Reasoning.

Dog:
Huh?

Elephant:
Humans have great reasoning abilities.

Chicken:
That's it? Is that even a joke?

Elephant:
Yes, that's it. They're great at making reasons, great at running excuses.

Cat:
So that ability settles the score between humans and us?

Elephant
Elephant: Yes. Find a man so poor. He'll be glad to tell you how the people around him made him poor. He'll blame the system, not realizing his own shortcomings.

Monkey:
A blame-game.

Elephant:
It's no coincidence he knows how to defend his situation. It's an ability bestowed upon him. Unfortunately, most humans use it the way the poor man does.



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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 07, 2014

    Great conversation! Thumbs up!elephant ses."humans have great reasoning abilities"..haha., tama sya,,

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  2. weird. this article actually made me cry..grabe nman emotional attachment mo sa reader mo author! hihi. ,

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  3. what a well-written article author. kudos!!

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