Forgiving Earth...

They say Earth is so forgiving..
We humans have this habit of taking everything but giving nothing in return..
These humans living on my surface are about to celebrate an Earth day, from four days now,when they talk on TV, write in books about Earth's Day, when all they are doing is cutting trees, felling forests, leaving harmful substances into waters of rivers, when I bestow on them such sweet fruits in return of their act of planting trees, they are in turn dumping harsh, chemical substances into my belly,earth is reacting to all our such deeds, by exploding and fuming ash into our face, with anger and frustration was my thought.


When the dormant volcano in Iceland erupted a few days back, I thought,earth is speaking out her mind, enough of your words and empty acts of Earth day.Enough of your vanity. The so called developed countries closed their air ports and all the travellers have to live in airports, their life came to stand still, President of America himself has to abandon his travel plans.Loss is in Millions of dollars it is being said.


Some good hearted folks must have prayed to Earth to excuse us ..and she relented.She must have thought mean human beings, let us excuse..Now is the time to stop and think and act.. plant a new plant when you fell a tree,use our water resources frugally, the real worshipping of rivers is not to offer a sacred pooja of vermilion and harathi  ,but think and use wisely each drop of water, is the real offering of kumkum, instead of offering a harathi, take a vow to keep the flowing waters of the river to be unpolluted and clear.


Blow horns into the deaf ears of Governments to wake them up, open the eyes of public and awake them to the reality and by practising what we preach, let us leave a healthy habit of respecting our earth and let us leave some fresh resources to our future generations too.We have come as privileged guests of earth and let  us behave as well mannered guests, as we behave in our normal society, not otherwise...


Now we have exploited our earth to its end and planning to land on moon and mars  too in a few years. On a cool night, when we stare in the sky,a shining bright moon soothes us and looks at us. Such cool ,soothing , moon light he showers on us.Even now, I can visualise a rabbit on the face of the moon, when ever I stare at moon, as I was told in my childhood.I cannot imagine sky scrapers and smoke  emanating vehicles on the surface of moon, don't we really take pity on the plight of moon??


I heard about real estate agents too trying to sell plots on moon.Now, one earth is not enough for our greed we are getting ready to fly to other planets too. Is there no end to the greed of a man?? the earth must be wondering.


We are digging our own grave, by running out of resources ,without replenishing the earth, with new resources. Man is so mean and greedy that he is selling air, water, and land irresponsibly without any care, just for a few coppers. Earth may curse us for our greediness and harm us too.


We have to wake up ,before it is too late. Our off-springs will never care for the cash we have left them, but look out for how much air,water and land we have left  them..as our inheritance.


In the famous novel by Nevil Shute- The Beach,the residents are about to die ,due to a nuclear hit, the world is about to end, all of them dead, due to nuclear explosion,but still, a couple  plants trees, in the hope of serving next generations, when the whole mankind has been swept off.We also should take a lesson from them and feel and behave as if it is our last day on earth and be humble. Our foot prints on earth, may not remain, but a plant we nurture, will bow to earth and whisper prayers to it, on our behalf.


Our earth is not counting this day , or not minding these days,we celebrate,it has been here,since millions of years, bearing us on its surface, we need to bow to it as a mark of respect, that is all we are expected to do,Is it not the time???