Wednesday 27 January 2016

An Inspirational Story



Characters of the story

šRubby – The Eraser

šPinky  - The pencil
On a busy Monday….
Rubby : “I feel pity on you , Pinky. You have to work the entire day especially during exams. Comparing with the other stationaries, your job is the hardest and the most tiring.”
 Pinky : “I agree with you, it is very tiring for me to work all day. At the same time, I feel very sorry for you also.”
Rubby: “ Me? You feel sorry for me? What makes you say that?
Pinky:  I’m sorry because you get hurt because of me. Whenever I have made a mistake, you are always there to erase it.
Rubby: That's true. But I don't really mind.
Pinky: But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself and you will become smaller and smaller. The same way you keep making mistakes vanish, even one day you will vanish in the same way.
Rubby:You see, I was made to do this. I was Made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So you stop worrying as I do not want to see you sad.

Conservation!



22nd January 2012
12:03 A.M .
Dear Diary,

I am very scared. Today, seven of my friends were cut down. I am scared that I would be the next. I don’t understand. What have I or my friends have done to these humans. We had always helped them in many ways. We supply oxygen to them everyday. We also provide shelter to them. Then why do they want to cut us down?  I hope that one day they would understand this matter and conserve us. I love humans more I do myself but they are the ones who fail to understand us.
Good Night,
Tree 

The Lone Wolf

        I used to hunt alongside my pack, though a small pack, we walked with pride. Our species was considered rare and endangered by the humans, yet we are hunted every day for our hide, bones and teeth. We did our best to survive through those tough times despite the endangering factors that existed. Finding food got harder by the day, at this rate there won’t be sufficient food for winter.
       There were five of us; Moon Moon, Arya, Theon, myself, Rob and our Alpha, Chuck. We were the last of our kind. We were the last pack of gray wolves on planet Earth. The rest of our Species had been annihilated by the cruel beings on the top of the food chain, Humans. They invaded our home with huge metal creatures which felled rows of trees at once and grinded barks to pulp in their maws of steel. Their great flames consumed most of our forests in a blazing inferno. When faced with one of our kind, Humans shoot us down with their vile guns, and then they would proceed to defile us by ripping our skin off our flesh.
      “Moon Moon stay atop the hill and keep watch for prey and humans, Arya and Theon head towards North and see if you can find any prey, meanwhile I and Rob will stay and watch over this food source” said our alpha, Chuck in a loud, authoritative voice. “Got it” Arya and Theon said in unison with utmost loyalty and ran off towards the Northern plains.
Hours later, Arya returned with no sign of Theon.  Arya runs back panting and says “ Theon…Theon.. Is… is.. no more, he fought a bear to save me from it, he fought valiantly”. “ If the north is overrun with bears it looks like we’ll have to head south”, said Chuck. Moon Moon rushes down to notice Theon missing. He looks around and asks, “Theon still out hunting?” The rest of the group looks down with remorse. I step forward and tell him, “ Moon Moon, Theon is dead. He died fighting a bear to save Arya”. Moon Moon looks up to the skies with a tear running down the side of his face and howls with grief for Theon, who has been like a brother to him his whole life. Suddenly, the sound of a gunshot burst through the air. Chuck notices the hunter in the distance and turns to Moon Moon “Weren’t you supposed to warn us of danger early?” he asks with contempt in his voice. “Yes, but then I came down the hill” Moon Moon replies with a sheepish grin on his face. “Damn it Moon Moon, you had one job” Chuck replied sharply. The dirt next to my fore leg was sent flying upwards when a bullet hit it, accompanied by the loud crack of a rifle. “Run, to the South” shouts Arya, we then charge towards the Southern forests.
           Upon reaching the forest, Chuck says “We need to find food for winter, guided by Rob’s sharp sense of smell; we shall hunt our next prey”. I followed my nose which had picked up the scent of rabbits. “Over there”, I shouted, pointing toward a bush with my nose. We heard a gunshot and when we looked back Moon Moon was on the ground, bleeding out from his head. “Moon Moon nooooo!!!!!” shouts Arya, as I heard the sound of the hunter preparing his rifle for another shot. Chuck commands us to move forward, “There’s no time, he’s gone, and we can’t save him”. We run away, stumbling through the bramble and through the bushes. A loud bone crunching snap was heard behind, and I turned to take look. Chuck’s leg was caught in a bear trap. He was bleeding and he seemed to be in extreme pain. “go on young ones, young ones such as you must carry on the will of our kind. As wolves we shall adapt to survive. Now go!!” He commands. I stood, reluctant to move. Arya dragged me away from Chuck and forced me to move on, “Yes, we shall obey your command” Arya says and we run away.
Arya and I make our way south to the river and on the way it starts to snow. Arya looks up and says, “Winter is coming, we won’t last very long if we don’t get any food soon”. I say “You do realise that this means that there is no more option for food in the forests or the plains as the rabbits and dears would be hidden away safely. Our only course of action will be to raid the farms for food”. “I do not like the idea of entering human territory, but I guess we must move to our last resort”.
On our way to the farm, we encounter a hunting party. “What luck” said Arya, with an edge of sarcasm in her voice. The hounds start to bark at the bushes we were concealed in. The very next second, a bullet pierces Arya’s skin as she runs off in the other direction to draw their attention. She looks at me and tells me, “Live on”. She howls at the sky and is jumped on by two hounds, which begin devouring her skin.
I move on forward out of the bushes to come face to face with a Double barreled shotgun. I peer into its two barrels, knowing my time has come. I am the last of my kind, the only gray wolf left on this planet about face Oblivion. I suppose this is what they call, ‘survival of the fittest’. The weak really must die for the strong to move on. I looked him in the eye and wondered who had given this man the right to decide the time of my death. To tip the balance of nature and send an entire species to extinction. I can say for sure, Ifs things keep going the way they are, Humans would soon slay every beast and soon they themselves would die out. These men do not believe in conserving anything. They go by the belief of having everything serve its purpose and then be lost in time for eternity.
The man in front of me stood his ground he looked at me with anger. I do not know why but this man hated me, I did nothing to him, he did not know mw but he hated me. He then pulled the trigger, I heard the loud report of the rifle, then I felt nothing beyond that, I looked up, and instead of the hunting party, I saw my pack. Moon Moon, Chuck, Arya and Theon stood before me, “Finally you have joined us”, Chuck said peacefully.

The End

Autobiography of a Banyan Tree

I am a banyan tree of a town. Proud and firm. I like all the town folk for the care and concern they show me. I readily and happily offer shelter to their goats and sheep. Their children play under my care and protection. I owe them my life.
It was long ago, when I was young and slim. I cared only for my desire to grow up. One day, I saw a group of workers sent by the government, sharpening their axes to cut me down. I became highly anxious. I trembled with fear. Suddenly, a loud voice echoed through the town. “Do not cut our trees. They are the breath of our life.”
It was the people of the town. I never knew that they loved me so much. They hugged my trunk so tightly that three axemen were not able to tear them away from me.

“Chop me first, “they cried. “Take our life but leave our trees alone.” I was moved by their affection but had no means to express my feelings. I could only shed a few of my leaves on them to show my gratitude.Suddenly, hundreds of people from the town, old and young, rushed towards me and other trees. Each one hugged one of us. The government’s axemen were unable to touch any tree. They beat and arrested several men and women.
 It terrified me. At least seven people hugged my trunk to save me from the axes. I shed hundreds of my leaves on them.The government heard the instance of public protest. The government officials rushed to the spot. They stood under me when the people begged for mercy on trees. The government ordered that this town would never be called upon to provide timber to his men nor would any cutting be permitted here.

Today even after two centuries, the greenery of this town is intact. If the people of the town were not there the tree would die from those greedy people. 

My Life as A tree….

My journey was like a sweet smell and the nature was perfect.
I was the strongest tree and my branches are covered with green leaves…..

Flowers bloom past as spring passes
Birds’ chirpings and monkeys enjoy swinging around with my roots….
                    
         Small children are playing around my long hanging roots… Enjoying the sweet memories….
As time passes birds flew away to south for warming themselves. Because the time has come for the cold winter. I was so alone and no one was there to protect me…

One day the time where my life was totally change; two woodcutters came to cut down the trees for palm oil industry…

 And I was affected and they cut down my one of all beautiful branches.

I was crying in pain none of them bothered to ask...

When the birds came back from winter they were astonished to see me that I was about to die… That was the last piece of my life…..



STORY OF MY SURVIVAL

I am Dino, the rabbit. Yes, that’s right, I’m a rabbit. Now you’d probably be wondering how I, being an animal talk. Well I learnt it from two little girls who came near my forest two weeks ago.  They had come here for a hunting expenditure, something their parents were very fond of.  It so happened to be that one day, my friends and I were going to the pond, to take our morning shower then we suddenly heard a shooting sound. We all got scared and rushed to the cave next to the waterfall, a place we could hide. 


When we reached the cave, we heard someone cry; we went in and found out that it was actually two little girls. They looked very scared. We talked to them and found out they happened to get lost in this forest.  We consoled the girls till the shooting noises were no more heard.  We later took them to our hut and gave them food and shelter.  We soon became good friends. They even taught me English. One day when I was having dinner, I suddenly heard gun shoots, again.  And then everyone started running around. It was a sudden rush.

There was fire everywhere. We all lost our home. I somehow managed to escape from there. I hid behind a huge rock. I spent the whole night there. The next morning, I went back to my hut and found out that everyone and everything was in ruins. My friends and family were no more. I was the only one left of my species. I didn’t have anything left. Then I noticed this small bracelet lying on the floor. That bracelet looked familiar. And suddenly I realized that it belonged to Anna, one of the human girls, I was with. Then I also saw some footsteps on the ground so I decided to follow them. On my way, I heard someone screaming and when the view became clearer, I saw Anna & Scarlet arguing with a middle aged man & woman .I guess the man and woman were their parents. They didn’t see me so I just hid behind a bush & overheard their conversation. The man was explaining his daughters that needed to clean up this place by killing the animals living here in order to construct factories. Both, Anna & Scarlet had tears in their eyes and they were trying to convince their parents to stop this cruelty & to not destroy the habitat of innocent animals. But their parents didn’t listen and they spotted me. The man picked up a gun and pointed it at me. His daughters tried to stop him but he pushed them away. Now, I was sure that this was the end and I was going to die. So, I closed my eyes but the bullet didn’t hit me. When I opened my eyes, there was a police inspector arresting the man. That inspector was literally my savior. Anna & Scarlet came and hugged me tightly. That’s how I survived.

Monday 25 January 2016

Animal Murder

Here I am going to my boring workplace. This was going to be one of my regular boring days. As I was walking down the street, something was going on. People were murmuring about something. When I asked a pedestrian about this, he told me that it was about a highway that was going to be built in the town. At first I too felt happy that a highway was going to be built so that I can go to work faster. But I thought where is the place to build a highway in this congested town. Soon I realized that they were going to build the highway through the forest which was the only greenery in the town. So I went to collect more details about this highway. I found out that they were going to cut down the forest and build the highway through it. So I immediately informed about this to my manager, I also told him about the consequences we would face if we destroy the only forest in town. But my manager did not care about this. I tried telling this to the public, but no one cared as the highway benefitted all the people in town.

After 5 months the highway was completed successfully. Soon many cars started to storm the highway. Since the highway took up a lot of space most of the individual houses were brought down and apartments were built. Due to this more waste was being produced and this caused more pollution. All the cars on the highway started producing more smoke. On top of this there were frequent animal attacks in the town as the animals lost their habitat. The people in the town were now living a life of terror. People lost their happiness and were scared of more animal attacks. But still people did not come to their senses, they still did not know what was cause of this destruction.
Finally one day all the animals starting from a deer to a lion stormed into the town. People were panicking in the town. While I was running for my life I saw many people being eaten or injured by many animals. Then I saw members of the press in the middle of this chaos, filming it. Then I without any shame went to the camera and stared screaming. Since this was a live coverage and this was being telecasted on a huge screen in town, people started listening to me. I told them that until this highway is in this town we will not live happily. Due to the loss of their home animals started living with us and we all know how their form of living is. So to get back our lives we should destroy this highway. Those in favor of me, come with me let’s get our original lives back.

 Soon a mob of people came with me to the municipal’s office. We told the mayor about everything and we asked him to remove the highway. In three months the highway was removed faster than it was built. The people then got their lives back and lived happily.