Today is worlds environment day. And I am tempted to acknowledge it either by doing something or by promising something.
Yesterday Bangalore witnessed heavy rain for short amount of time. We were on the cafeteria, enjoying the rain, watching the road jam on bannerghatta road and noticing the water flowing by the sidewalks. There was enough water on cafeteria floor so we took some pages and started making paper boat.
After lots of hits & trials we could make everything but boat. By the time we could have asked someone how to make it, rain stopped & water from cafeteria was dragged away by the sweeper. And our desire to bring back memory from our childhood went to trash.
Later that night i was thinking about those good old days when i used to bother my sister to make a boat for me so that i can follow the same on the sloppy road ,when i used to pray for rain to happen for a mere rainy day holiday or when i used to demand for onion pakoras to enjoy the rain and when i wanted to get wet in the rain accidentally.
Now when i can afford kukure to enjoy the rain, i can ask a child to make a boat for me, i am free to get wet as much as i want & i can enjoy the rain at home by applying the leave online, rain doesn't lasts for that long.
Last year Bangalore faced power crisis because of decreasing water level in the river. This year also i suppose this is going to happen. While in west Bengal cyclone named Aila left 140 people dead & thousands affected, monsoon is expected to reach in UP & Bihar quite late this year too. Like every year this year also some of the states will face drought & some will be washed away with flood.
Although many of us don't give a damn about monsoon ,flood or drought, because as long as we are inside our flat situated in a metropolitan city and as long as pizza are available on our door steps, we can enjoy these natural calamities also on TV. We generally expresses our concerns on global warming, ozone depletion, solar variation but we do very little to save our precious environment.
I have decided that from now onward I wont be asking for polythene whenever i go to more or nilgiri. And I am goin to ask all the banks to send a ecopy instead of hard copy of my monthly statements.
I don't know what you can do to save your environment, but whatever it is, find that out before its too late, because you can not buy rain or the excitement you child can attain by floating a paper boat.
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