There was once an elephant of beautiful color. He thought he was a famous photographer one day, considering his intense love for photography. But his friends were always mocking his opinion and making fun of him.
When he would say to his friends that he wanted to be a photographer who captures all images, they would laugh at his speech. Some of them would say: What foolishness! Don’t you learn there is no camera for photographing elephants! And others would say: You are wasting your time in something useless, as there is nothing to photograph for him in this place anyway.
The elephant didn’t despair from his friends’ speech, but rather sought to realize his dream by all possible means. He managed to obtain tools and devices like that camera he was thinking about. He made it in a very good form from the beginning. He made its lens very strong until its size fit with the elephant’s hugeness. As he made a holder of iron so he could carry the camera with it and attach it to his head.
The elephant was extremely happy with the camera he made to realize his dream. He started capturing first image for him using the camera. But the camera’s shape was strange and its size huge, which made all the other elephants laugh at its shape when looking at it.
The blind elephant began feeling sad with that strange shape he captured for himself, which started with huge size and strange shape to laugh at, which made all the animals laugh at the image. He thought at that time to exploit the camera he made to capture laughing images for all the animals.
The blind elephant started photographing images not believed by the animals, which made them rejoice at continuously with those images he gave them for joking and thinking. Where they were images without like them, and the elephant became blind elephant, the famous photographer for the forest. All the animals would come to him to capture laughing images to avoid sadness of their mothers.
Everyone felt happiness, as all the animals started loving the elephant and praising him for what he made. The elephant realized that the dream would come true if there were persistence, patience, and contentment, unlike others who didn’t love realizing dreams.
The story is translated from Spanish Title: El elefante fotógrafo