8. THE GREEN FOREST MEETING
(the way the species think)
An event happened. Then after many events happened. Tensions reached their boiling point. Diplomacy went pop. Which side was bad – it was difficult to draw the line. Both sides seemed to be not bad. And not good either. Where the bad started and where the bad will end, could not be determined. But one event was sure. Some bad was going to happen. And it was inevitable.
When that bad will happen, the worse will begin. The worse will have enough fuel to become worser. That will also be inevitable. When the worser also happens, it will continue to the next level. Even at that time, no side will be bad. Because they all will be good. The first side will have its reasons and the other side will be in possession of them too. The direction bad, worse, worser cannot be avoided. The avoidance cannot be made – such is its nature.
All of the countries have Ministry of Defence. This infers that only defence shall be done. If every country adopts the defensive policy, no country will be there to attack. Then all the Ministries of Defence would dissolve. When they all dissolve, wars would cease to happen.
Right now, there is no war. If every country applies a full stop to the procurement and development of weapons there would be no war. Just in case, a single country keeps a secret comma and starts to increase its weaponry it will become very dangerous. For this factor alone, billions of money have to be spent every year for no good reason at all.
When the production of materials stop, the use of the materials will also stop. If nobody has a revolver, a gun fight cannot be made. Then one will have to fight will fists. That is better because fists cannot kill - they can only hurt. But now there are weapons which can vaporize the entire mankind
But these are such a waste of time. Wars will happen. And will continue to happen. Wars have their own genuine reasons. Those reasons cannot be confuted at the time of their occurrence. When the wars occur, they kill one million people but entertain one thousand million people. That seems to be their stronghold.
_ _ _ _ Anno Domini
THE EARTH WAR
A Thermobaric bomb blasted itself above the land and revealed the blood of the armed soldiers with immediate effect. The brown sand became bloody sand. The blast made the entire surrounding full of black debris. The declaration of War has been confirmed.
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Inside a green forest, the king lion was surrounded by other animals of the forest. They all have gathered there for a meeting.
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“These human beings are becoming worser and worser with every passing decade” complained an owl.
“Yes, But they all seem to be so powerful that we can do nothing to stop them from making a graveyard of our Earth.
“I once spoke to Mother Earth regarding this matter” said an Earthworm “but she told me that it will not be possible for her to punish all of the humans by Earthquaking them. The Gods seem to be against it.
“Why can’t the Gods put us in some other planet and let us live in peace” commented a tortoise.
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“ A separate planet for herbivore animals and a separate planet for carnivore animals would be a better idea” said a deer which was fed up of escaping from the lions and the tigers.
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If they kill each other, I do not bother. But why are they killing us by poisoning all the lands and the waters.
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“This information was transmitted from generation to generation and now it has come to me. My Grandtiger told me that before we tigers used to scare and kill human beings and eat them for a meal”.
“Ah! Such fairy tales” said the tortoise.
The tiger continued “But later on they found something from somewhere which can kill us even from a far away distance” the tiger finished.
“I wonder from which forest those human beings are getting such magic things which can kill even the tigers from such far distance” thought a buffalo.
“A cuckoo which had once been to an Aerodrome said “ I have seen giant birds which fly faster than us. But I have never seen them fly in a playful manner, eat grains or sit on the branches of trees. What I am going to say you might not believe it. One day, I happened to sight an enormous bird rolling on the ground. I had eighteen funny rolling legs. And when it stopped human beings came out of its stomach”
“Do not be such a liar” detested the tortoise and turned its head over to a crocodile.
The crocodile did not seem to believe the cuckoo either.
The tortoise and the crocodile became good friends.
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“Please do not talk bad about the humans, they are so friendly” said a dog.
“You are very fortunate. Even if we all of us perish your’s will be the only kind left on Earth.
An ant which has been silently sitting on the blade tip of a grass said "my uncle got washed away when he was walking over the wash basin. Thenafter I tried to search him but in vain. It was so dark in the tunnel. Thank God! The waterfalls did not happen again. Or else I too would have been washed away. I hate the humans washing their hands in the basin”.
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“And my grandfather got killed by a chemical air spray” . said a cockroach. “These humans hardly like us”.
These humans are really very clever. As they cannot fly like the birds, they make birds which fly for them.
“These humans might be very powerful. But they can never walk vertically like I do” said a squirrel.
“Like we do” corrected a lizard, worried about its neglect.
“Hey, what about me? “ said a chameleon slightly disappointed.
“kindly stop”. These humans cannot walk vertically, all right” said the lion king worried that the other vertical walkers might join them and spoil the atmosphere of the meeting and make the meeting a waste of time.
“These humans believe in the existence of heaven after their death” said the first parrot. “As far as I am concerned the Earth itself is a heaven”
“That’s right” said a dove. “For me, if you subtract the eagles and the vultures then it will be a heaven for me too”.
“Thank God, we don’t have Military Tanks and the Aircrafts. Or else, we too might have been fighting like the humans simply because we have them”.
“It’s so boring not to use something which one has acquired” observed a cunning fox very pleased with its acquisition of cunningness and intelligence..
Hundreds of human beings killed each other” said a parrot which had escaped from the place of the riots.
“Thank God, we do not have the religions” observed the second parrot.
“Our life is much simpler. All we need for our life is few grains. We do not have materialistic possessions except our haystack hanging house. We are very happy with nothing”.
Said an ant: We are workaholics. Our life is very jolly. We love our work. The human people are workhaholics. But they do not seem to be happy with their work. Their life appears to be miserable.
After a long gossip, they all suddenly became silent and looked at one another. Thenafter, they all laughed in unison.
At that time, a thermobaric bomb……no – a thermo barbaric bomb ……. blasted above the land in the vicinity of the Green Forest where the meeting was taking place and quickly dispersed the meeting.
written by Gokula Anand Year : 2004
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