An elephant story!

My teacher, Mr. Lun Phearin

Learning English during a meaningful time from my gentle and respectful teacher, Mr. Lun Phearin, now becoming a vice principle at Westline school and a businessman at Pheavy Phone Shop, I remember one of his nice, educational and unforgettable stories that always remind me every time in my life. I just like his way as he is, always staying calm, positive, and focused in each and every situation he deals with.

Whilst learning English with him in his English session, I always kept focused, attentive to what he explained, and curious to search more in detail to enlarge my scope for English level. Having fully learned with him, I saw a tremendous change I could make and the result came out with a remarkable reminiscence that I would like to recap and reminisce it now.

Elephant

Already intended to share us about struggling life, he shared us a nice and meaningful story about elephant. "There was a small and lovely elephant child living in a house near the forest and a bit far from village with its owner, and the elephant child was tied by wire tie once it was kept at home. The small and lovely elephant child tried many times to break that wire, yet it hurt him very much and scared him not to try to break it again. As the nature of a strong, tolerant, friendly, and helpful animal, elephant is quite strong and full of power. Time was over and over, the small and lovely child elephant became a gentle one, whose body is big and full of power. Every day his owner always brings him to find useful wood in the forest nearby their house, and the gentle elephant is very helpful, it can topple a number of hundred-year huge trees in just a couple of minutes and even be able to bring it back home with his owner. It can also carry heavy things for his owner in every single situation his owner could not do it by himself. Once they returned home after spending a long time finding wood in the forest, his owner used the normal wire tie he used to use to tie his gentle elephant as usual just like it was a young and lovely elephant. Having a marvelous power from nature, it should be impossible to block our gentle elephant from breaking the wire tied him since he has enough power, yet due to the previous experience when he was young, he feels so scary not to break it again.", told Mr. Lun Phearin, also adding that, "Do not just experience yourself like an elephant's life! You can free yourself to do what you want, and the past time will not scare you anymore yet will teach you not to test those bad experiences you used to face."

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Having learnt through it, I just like and remember his words and advices he shared.  Thanks to his remarkable story, I learnt to reverse the meaning of that story and would use "elephant" as my nickname in the nick of time to remind the time I used to be with him, and this elephant will not be just like an elephant in that story, being strong to use his past time to motivate himself in the present time for his brighter and struggling life. A good judgment would always come up when we are strong enough to reckon and face with our past time, and it does not mean that our faith will have to be exactly the same as our past time. Our faith will not just be right if we are scare not to give ourselves a mean of successful and struggling life.