Dolphin Smile

As I watched the documentary, The Cove, my heart bled at seeing the dolphin’s being slaughtered by the Japanese fisherman.  I, as I believe any sensitive empathic human, shed tears of sorrow from witnessing the dolphin’s suffer.

I applaud all those people who were involved in making The Cove for their courage to expose this barbaric slaughter of dolphin’s. In making this movie, they stood up for the dolphin’s because the dolphin’s could not stand up for themeselves. 

I hope that the Japanese fisherman will recognize the folly of their ways and yet I am not sure this will happen,  primarily because they seem so encrusted in their beliefs about their right to harm dolphin’s. Challenging and exposing their harmful actions, as The Cove has, does bring worldwide attention to this massacare. Yet,  has it hardend the Japanese fisherman’s resolve to stay the course? I don’t know. I do know that when someone tells another person not to do something or that they are bad because of what they do, that person often responds with… who are you to tell me what to do, because they do not want to personally feel the pain or badness of their actions.

I do have a suggestion that might help to end the dolphin slaughter.  When I saw the video of the dolphin slaughter my first emotional experience was the hurt, the saddness, and the pain that my heart felt for the dolphin’s suffering. I have chosen to stay with this experience as I have found that the  pain of my wounded heart can be soothed and healed by my tears. And a wounded heart sometimes elicits compassion from others for the suffering and eventually opens other heart’s to empathically feel this wound and then respond with tender loving kindness.

I want the Japanese fisherman to see that my human heart bleeds for the bleeding dolphin’s heart’s…  and just maybe, deep down, underneath their encrustations, they might recognize that their heart’s are bleeding as well.

 Love,

A Dolphin Lover