Hooman Life in our eyes

 

I am Yeehaw , a fox . I almost look like my good friend Bowie , a dog . Often we get confused but since we have different eating choices we don't get into much fights for food. But, I am also friends with something which I never thought will be a reality. Her name is Bucky , the chicken. I once happened to walk close by a river when suddenly I slipped on the mud and almost started getting pulled into the water body and since I didn't know swimming , I thought my time was up . Bucky started frantically shouting and flapping when a nearby human male threw me a rope and I bit into it and got myself out and let out a cry of gratitude when the human suddenly realizing I am not a dog , let go of the rope and sped straight into a machine that magically seemed to take him out making some horrible noise. But for Bucky , I wouldn't have been alive. On any other day, I would have also loved bucky, in terms of a good dinner and she will be happily digesting in my tummy, but I can never look at her that way any more. While I was narrating this story to Bowie he also happened to acknowledge how irritating she can be sometimes, when she used to chase him for no reason but end up quickly flying onto a shed . But we both still liked her for who she is. 

We live in a human neighborhood with close access to how they live their lives and it got us wondering if they were really matured and advanced than us. Now, we have a simple life agenda . We hunt for food, share food sometimes , we find a good partner and then take care of our children , we sleep and the day repeats . We find some excitement from the weather or when the humans throw us some good food . But we don't kill each other for no reason or do we depend on other species nor our own for our daily sustenance. But guess what, these 2 legged creatures, the so called advanced ones didn't seem far off from us.  Bowie , who gets the most attention among the 3 of us often had observed how few of the humans use Moo the cow who often dirties the ground where we play with her huge pile of you know what. Bowie tells us that he sees one man , come with a metallic object and some grass in his hand and some fruits occasionally. He feeds moo and ends up drawing what we suppose is moo's food for her baby. Then one day , he told he overhead one of the humans talk about eating bucky herself, along with her baby shells from which baby buckys usually come.  Bucky, when she heard about this , stopped going near their parks for want of the grains which few of the humans threw her and somedays she ends up sleeping with an empty stomach. Myself or bowie bring her some leftover food from the bins where the humans throw stuff into. 

We have also observed how sometimes the humans seem to gift their own babies to other humans who live near by in the mornings and in the evening they got it back . We wonder where they go , aren't they afraid that someone may come and kill their baby ? We never do that in our world. We always take care and train our babies until their bite is strong enough , and then we let them be. We don't ask our fellow species to take care of our babies. The other day, I was seeing a human suddenly climb up a tree which had coconuts on it and started shaking it , making them drop . One almost hit one of bowie's friend and she stopped coming to our place thinking she will be hurt. We have also seen different fruit baskets which the humans litter all around and the fellow humans come and give them some paper and these people give them the fruits and vegetables in return . I wonder if they own anything at all ? Can they ever live without using each other ? Everyone seems to be giving and receiving something  to each other. However, what we have observed is, they are not smelly like us and they sometimes seem to take out their outer skin completely and stand under water and use a different skin everyday. They are one weird species.  

The other day, we heard a loud sound , so loud that all of us came out of our nests including Hisser, the water snake. He is not friends with anyone and always goes inside a hole and only comes out when it is totally dark and I can see well at night. We saw how something came from above, where our bird friend Kalia, the black crow usually lives and it started falling on the huge boxes in which the humans lived . When it came down, it made huge sound and created so much dust, and one object came flying and hit bowie , who started barking in pain. The humans started coming out and came running towards us and we all had no place to go as suddenly they were all over our place. Only Hisser and couple of other friends who lived below the ground appeared to hold on to their privacy. 

It lasted for a long time and then it became silent . Only few of the humans were coming out and their skins were all torn . They all seemed to be in pain. We all made a collective decision to move to a different neighborhood as this was not the first time this happened.  Every time something like this happens we don't understand at all why they do this to each other. Don't they realize their entire sustenance is based on each other's welfare ?

To the reader...You get where I am going ?

We , the human beings, who can go under the oceans and go into the skies, and perhaps even out of it , the humans who depend on each other and on everything mother earth provides from food, water, earth ( living space ) and what not, derive so much arrogance in our capacity to "create" things out of things that are already there , when are merely modifying their properties into something. Can you once imagine , if we technically didn't get anything from nature , can we even move a leg ? Shouldn't us, the advanced creatures who are supposedly the evolving species , the front runners , who are biggest borrowers/beggars of what nature provides be the most humble of all species ? We need each other for everything . 

I need food , somebody grows the food , manufactures it , sells it and I use the money that somebody gives me out of the job which I do for someone sitting somewhere . If I am not there , someone cannot live - this is the simplest horrifying axiom that can be extended to the entire human fraternity. Whose wealth are we stealing ? What damn rights do we have to claim hegemony over anyone or anything ? What purpose do we even get from getting each other killed for differences that were meant to be there ? 

Just like how we rollback / uninstall certain updates to the operating systems or software when it causes performance issues, we are not that far from a time when the universe chooses to rollback the intelligence in us and uninstall the whole human framework to save the rest of the world. We are not the only ones here .We are a part of it.  If we don't find a means to co-exist with each other , even as we only keep multiplying , none of the money , wealth , pride , vanity will be of any use as there will be no one in the world to share this with and finally there will be no world at all . It is said that all of this began with a "word" , a bang . If we don't check ourselves how we are progressing , we are only going to initiate the same bang into which all of this will cease to exist.

Stop Wars . Stop hatred. Promote Love. 

Nature is always online , and one day , she might just "end Task" from the Nature Task Manager if we don't mend our ways.