Nara and the Bowing Deers of Nara

As we were heading to Nara, I never anticipated and I should have that there will be so many tourists riding the train heading to the same direction as we were heading.

The deers of Nara have gained popularity, primarily due to social media. For who would miss the ever respectful, beautiful animals of Nara. They bow.

The indication that these beautiful animals show their respect is when they bow. However, does their bowing actually indicate respect, in their own standards? Or do we as humans assume this is so, and judge it to be so according to our standard of respect?

From this angle of our assumption, it holds a very endearing thought. We consider this gesture of the deer as something showing respect and/or politeness. Endearing in a sense that we look at the goodness of these creature and try to relate and equate it to our level of respect and politeness.

It's amazing that despite the cruelty of the world, or at least as how we always hear it in the media, there is innate goodness in each and every human being and this correlation or our assumption of the respect of the gesture of the deer is an evidence of it.

But, of course, it can always be argued that it is not so, especially by the cynical person. For how can they believe such goodness if the cynics had experienced so much bitterness and hurt in their lives?

However, it is also worth understanding that the cynics that reaction may be somewhat negative - oh well, that's what a cynic is. These types of people, though, are being cynical not for the sake of being cynical and be apart from the like-minded goodness of most of the population; but, are being cynical as their way of verifying that the goodness they see is actually good.

It is like a sort of an open challenge to the world and the cynic is inviting the goodness of other people's hearts to prove their negativity and cynicism wrong.

I think understanding or knowing the possible underlying reason of, in this case, cynicism can go a long way in changing a negative perspective into a positive one.

Obviously, this is something that is not easily or immediately or shortly achieved, this may take an extended time, in most cases, for a perspective to change.

And will it even be worth it, considering the length of time it will take? Oh, most definitely, yes.

Well, enough about positivity and the cynics. This is a post about Nara and the deers of Nara after all.

The beauty of Nara is something to behold; however, it may be a good thing to not totally take my word for it, for I was only able to explore the parts where most, if not all, tourist go to explore and see the deer.

The vicinity and the landscape of that swarmed by tourists, of both locals and foreigners alike, is just a place that screams beautiful.

I have said this multiple times; but, I'll say it again - every time I go to a place in Japan I'd always find myself exclaiming that I won't have issues living in that place. That's just how beautiful the place is, and it's remarkable how the places I have been to, both planned and unplanned, and places that I came to by chance or by accident are just beautiful, clean and tranquil.

Purely an opinion and I'll express it, just like how I always do in this blog, the human soul is always after the traits that I mentioned in the above paragraph. Most people, and sadly not all, always long for beauty and tranquility.

This is an expression of our innate desire to be united with something beautiful and peaceful. The human soul hungers and thirsts for the source of beauty and tranquility.

This desire sustains us to strive to achieve goodness and experience beauty and bathe in peace.

Thus, seeing the beautiful deer and peaceful nature in Nara reminded me of the goodness we see in our day to day lives and somehow still fail to appreciate that anywhere we look, we are surrounded with beauty.