Ok I know it's not cool to ride elephants in this day and age. However, I met a guy who invited me to his elephant "sanctuary", and I went to bathe the elephants, but he kept yelling at me to get on, in fact he yelled at me in Thai the whole time, or maybe he was yelling at the elephant. I tried to make it as nice for her as I could. I was like a kid and could NOT stop myself from climbing on. I had heard stories about the sad elephants being ridden by tourists so I felt okay about this guy with his "ecotour sanctuary" . On arrival and experiencing his demeanor and all the elephants eyes I realised they're all the same elephants, just at different stages of usefulness to bring a buck. Such majesty and such humbleness to put up with maltreatment when they are so much larger. I absolutely loved the chance to get heart to heart with one of my totems. Thanks to the magical legend Carl Pannuzzo (https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Ppvr3TIfNQe10zxCcBJp9?autoplay=true&v=A) for the music which I didn't get permission for yet, but is the most beautiful music I could find -and also, confident he won't sue for copyright ; )))) ??? Fingers crossed.
Thankyou Steemit and D-Live for inspiring me to make videos as we all know youtube is an abusive partner.
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