Have you been seen the big oxen's fight? And how do the other cattle stay when the two oxen are fighting? And what the other cattle do after the fight is finished?
Our family had a farm and more than ten cattle. In summer, we had “Prun Hlwat Chin” roughly translation to English could be - “Free Time” for the cattle. We, all villagers of the region (about 5 villages) had unwritten agreement that to give free time to all cattle in a very wide pasture. The free time was about three months (mostly March, April and May).
In free time, all the cattle (hundreds) from all villages could be eating the grass, play and sleep altogether in the same large pasture, without any work, any restriction, with totally freedom. They went around. Sometimes, they fought each other. The cow owners (from every village) went the place where the cattle were and checked their cows in their convenient time variedly, once per week, once per every two weeks, once per month, etc. Some cows gave birth during that free time and the owners got new little lovely cattle. It was when I was about seven. During free time, I remarkably noticed something that all cattle grew faster, become bigger and they looked so much happier than any other time. Most cow owners even did not recognize their cows well because of cattle’s changing bodies and behaviors, naturally.
Any way, I mainly would like to share here is about ‘the fight’ of cattle in the herd. In that free time, sometimes, big oxen fought each other for any reason. When big bulls fought, it was really great time to watch. I had chances to watch those events often. My interest was not just the two big oxen who were fighters, but also on the rest cattle. It was interestingly enough that the whole rest cattle were just watching on the fight. They did nothing. Most cattle even did not eat the grass, but just watching silently with straight ears. After the fight, there were always a winner and a loser. Loser ran speedily. Winner followed speedily and gored the loser. Here is more interesting part that - what the other cattle in the herd did at that time do you know? Many of them followed and gored the loser, together with the winner. They did not have any kind of thinking and examining that if (so called) a winner fought ethically or not; if a winner was a blind-seer or not; if a winner acted unilaterally or not, and so on, and so forth. They just gored a loser together with a winner after the fight.
It was true lesson that I learned from the herd. However, they were cattle and bulls in the herd. It was one of natural habits of those animals. Any way, what do you think with some/many human beings' actions and behaviors at similar events in humanity?
P.S: I mean hereby is for any fighter, any winner, any loser and any watcher, especially when the competition is led to 'winning is the most important; do/act anything (ANYTHING) to win!' but not to lead development of both competitors! Thanks!
Our family had a farm and more than ten cattle. In summer, we had “Prun Hlwat Chin” roughly translation to English could be - “Free Time” for the cattle. We, all villagers of the region (about 5 villages) had unwritten agreement that to give free time to all cattle in a very wide pasture. The free time was about three months (mostly March, April and May).
In free time, all the cattle (hundreds) from all villages could be eating the grass, play and sleep altogether in the same large pasture, without any work, any restriction, with totally freedom. They went around. Sometimes, they fought each other. The cow owners (from every village) went the place where the cattle were and checked their cows in their convenient time variedly, once per week, once per every two weeks, once per month, etc. Some cows gave birth during that free time and the owners got new little lovely cattle. It was when I was about seven. During free time, I remarkably noticed something that all cattle grew faster, become bigger and they looked so much happier than any other time. Most cow owners even did not recognize their cows well because of cattle’s changing bodies and behaviors, naturally.
Any way, I mainly would like to share here is about ‘the fight’ of cattle in the herd. In that free time, sometimes, big oxen fought each other for any reason. When big bulls fought, it was really great time to watch. I had chances to watch those events often. My interest was not just the two big oxen who were fighters, but also on the rest cattle. It was interestingly enough that the whole rest cattle were just watching on the fight. They did nothing. Most cattle even did not eat the grass, but just watching silently with straight ears. After the fight, there were always a winner and a loser. Loser ran speedily. Winner followed speedily and gored the loser. Here is more interesting part that - what the other cattle in the herd did at that time do you know? Many of them followed and gored the loser, together with the winner. They did not have any kind of thinking and examining that if (so called) a winner fought ethically or not; if a winner was a blind-seer or not; if a winner acted unilaterally or not, and so on, and so forth. They just gored a loser together with a winner after the fight.
It was true lesson that I learned from the herd. However, they were cattle and bulls in the herd. It was one of natural habits of those animals. Any way, what do you think with some/many human beings' actions and behaviors at similar events in humanity?
P.S: I mean hereby is for any fighter, any winner, any loser and any watcher, especially when the competition is led to 'winning is the most important; do/act anything (ANYTHING) to win!' but not to lead development of both competitors! Thanks!
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