Haathi Mere Saathi

I'm not an animal lover. Ask any of my friends. I'm not a cat or a dog person. It's not that I'm cold-hearted, it's just that even if I see a kitten i won't go all "aww it's so cute". There is nothing fundamentally wrong with me (I think??!), I just don't react like that. Sure, I'm all for SAVE THE TIGER, but that's mostly 'I'm a citizen of India and I should do my part in saving our national animal'. But today while watching (more like flipping through) Discovery Channel, I saw a piece on elephants. The clip showed the elephants being fed by mahouts. They stood in line, lifting their trunks,waiting for their turn. The animals looked so forlorn that my heart went out to them.
The narrator then went on to talk about the danger of poachers. That did it. I started cursing those poachers with all the bad words in my arsenal (of course my parents gave me the has-she-lost-her-mind look). And that's when it hit me like a wrecking ball. I'm an elephant lover. Maybe it was because my mom took me to feed the temple elephants in Udupi or maybe I'm not so emotionally devoid like I thought. Whatever the reasons maybe, I am forever more an elephant person.

P.S: I knew there was nothing wrong with me (most of the time).