AN
ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY LIFE
It was a beautiful morning of a
Spring Season in the year 2030. The normally expected blue sky was no longer blue
but dark reddish in color. The sun hadn’t showed up since years. Birds no
longer chirped nor there were any greenery in the vicinity. Parks and beaches
were filled with heaps of wastes and neither children played around nor elders
walked in the pavements. The air smelled of toxic with fumes making it unable
to breathe. All the people sealed their windows and doors to prevent the toxic
air from entering into their apartments and were very busy in their works at
their workstations and those at home hooked on to the TV, Mobile Phones,
Internet. Kid were engrossed into video games. Few people could been seen outside
the houses wearing masks and rushing into their cars.
Zenith, a lean 12 year old boy somehow
managed to drag himself out of his bed and peeped out of his window. He was
sick to due to inhaling the hazardous toxic air and his body was weak to fight
it and he was in bed since past two weeks under deep medication. He was feeling
very lonely and sad. He decided to search some books to read and climbed to his
attic and started searching when he surprisingly came accross his grandfather -
Mr. Zurich’s diary and got his email id.
He had neither seen his granddad
nor spoken to him after his parents broke up when he was just a baby and he was living with his mom and
stepdad far far away. He logged into his gmail account and sent an email to his
grandfather. He didn’t expect any reply but he was overwhelmed and exited when
he saw his inbox with “New Message”. He asked his grandfather for chat
id and began chatting with him.
His grandfather shared with him
the old snaps and told him many stories at his age. Zenith was exited to hear
them and started visualizing them. Fresh air, lots of greenery everywhere, open
parks, clean beaches, beautiful gardens, chirping birds, and laughing and
enjoying bonded families. Heart broken and grief stricken , he went to his bed
and sat there for few minutes and cried
and prayed to God. O God! Why wasn’t I born long before I could have enjoyed so
much in life and in a much healthier environment. Life has become so cyclic now
moreover so electronic. The world had advanced too much that people lost their
valuable time. He cried and cried and cried………
Tick tock tick tock!! The alarm
started ringing at the bedside of Mr. and Mrs. Zurich’s residence. Mr. Zurich
jumped from his bed and sat for a moment and was pale and bewildered. He ran to
his front door and checked the date on the newspaper. It was 01.12.2014. Oh!!!!
Thank God!!! So It was only a dream. Then he started explaining to his wife about
his dream and how the future generation was at stake. He said that this dream
was an indication to him to take some initiative to save the future generation
and their valuable childhood.
Immediately he called up some of
his friends started campaigns on Saving the Environment and also he expanded
his garden by planting more trees and flowers. He said to a TV reporter “Let
the media world wake up and enlighten the new generation to save our dying
earth; no matter how small an initiative each one can contribute, it will indeed
make a huge difference to save our world for tomorrow”.
Binu Rani Albert
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