“Surprise… Surprise…” that is what I thought when I saw a sparrow drinking water in my lawn on Sunday morning. I kept on seeing it for a while and then thought when I saw it last time happening. It took me a while to realize that it is more than two years. I wondered and asked my mother if I am true and she replied negatively by saying it would have been more than that.
I remember my daily routine from childhood days when I used to pour water with some raw rice in a bowl meant to feed sparrows or crows. This small bird always fascinated me from childhood. I tried catching it many a times though in vain. Coming back, I wonder where these small and beautiful creatures of our food chain have gone. Are they on the verge of extinction? I am not sure of this but I think they are. I have neither seen them in Chandigarh nor in Delhi. I hope situation in other urban cities is not different. I don’t have to state the reasons as they all are more of cliché now. Similar to weather changes to melting glaciers. It’s us, Humans.
By the way, how many times we, humans, give a thought about nature during a day? I am sure umpteen numbers of times, some of us discuss about the issues and few of them like me try putting it into words too. But then what? Few days back, I was watching a movie “12.12.08 Is The Last Day When Earth Stood Still” where someone from space comes to save the mother earth from us, humans, by huge destruction of concrete jungles we have made and by killing the most selfish mammal on earth. That supernatural power leaves leaving everything untouched by seeing that we check things when we are in a crisis or at the last moment. I think that moment is here, it is the last moment...
