ME @ ENVIRONMENT

It was the perfect Sunday morning. Me after my morning dose of caffeine and eggs was happily tinkering around the excuse of a garden I call my piece of heaven. 

Yes it’s a tiny terrace with a few black plastic pots with some plants I have been struggling to grow.

As soon as I was starting to enjoy myself, I got the call that changed my life...

It was Manisha, my school friend in her forever excited voice..
"Hey listen, we are organizing a dinner to celebrate World Environment Day. So get some plastic along and a small speech about your contribution to the cause."

I am like...What cause ????

Silence.. .Then a slow 

E n v i r o n m e n t !!!

Oh yes ...Oh sure , I’ll be there !

Ok, got to go babes...See u at the event...And please dress up

Environment friendly ..muah

Really?...

I already had a plan. On the D day, I am falling sick, high fever..sore throat...whatever is needed to keep off the environmental rigmarole.

I was back to my gardening..and there  I found it...the same weed again. Last week I de -weeded all my beauties...and this stubborn one was back. 
As I moved forward to uproot it yet again..I heard a voice from within. Yes, the same voice that talks in motherly tones we all dread.

‘This tiny weed has survived..
.survived global warming...melting ice caps, ozone depletion...pollution, plastic , and what not..including your (mine) attempts at uprooting it umpteen times !’

I felt small...not small but miniscule , tiny..nobody infact. 
I could not kill a single weed with 4 leaves...And they want me to save mother Earth...How???

I released the weed from my killer grip...and kissed it. Ain’t you cute baby weed !

You shall grow and thrive ..and live proudly as my tribute to the power of nature. Nature that has survived millions and millions of years of abuse. 

So I was ready to walk proudly to that dinner with my tiny weed. Henceforth all weeds are welcome in my garden for they are a symbol of survival of the fittest!!
symbol of our nothingness with respect to nature!!

And guys Nature wins hands down against every attempt we make to kill her....

Absolute surrender to Almighty Environment

May she save us from ourselves

Amen

Sonali Rasal
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