Gift To Mother

 Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we have ever known. A beautiful quote by American Astronomer Carl Edward Sagan.

The pale blue dot, the only home, what is he referring to. Is it our mother earth? 

You might be thinking why I am referring to earth as our mother. Is it because she gives us life and embeds us like a mother. Of course not only because of it. The most important reason is that she protects us exactly like how a mother protects her little baby. 

Today's newspapers are brimming with stories of how mother earth protects her beautiful children. And I know that upon reading that news, we all had a beautiful smile on our faces. The four little children along with their mother, the pilot and an indigenous leader started their journey. But unfortunately due to engine failure the plane crashed. The bodies of three adults were recovered near the crash. The children went missing in the Amazon forest. After 40 days of search the four children were found. Upon the death of their mother, their second mother, the earth protected them from jaguars, snakes and other predators in the forest. For the last forty days, she has been protecting these four children in her womb. 

If this were a story in a novel, we wouldn't believe it. In the Amazon forests, where snakes, including Anacondas, and other predators live, it is impossible to imagine the kids being safely rescued. But here it is the reality, not an author's creation.

 

Whether you've read the book or seen the film, we're all familiar with Jungle Book. In that the boy Mougli abandoned by his parents was adopted by the animals in the Jungle and was raised by the Wolves. We will never believe that right. How can animals raise a human boy? Then how can we believe the above news of nature raising the four children. 

Mother earth is always there for us. She takes care of everything: food, water, air and all the basic needs. But does she get the respect for that? Not only that, we are even troubling and making her feel bad all the time. We are exploiting her badly and not even giving her anything back. We use all the resources tremendously, cut down trees, and many more. We never give time in planting a tree back. We humans are the only ones ruining our mother earth. 

It's not too late to start. If we hold hands and start over we can save our beautiful mother. I don’t say we have to do many things to save the earth. But if we stop some of our actions that itself is necessary to save our earth. Just like stop cutting down the trees, stop burning plastics and many more like that. Our efforts can together save this beautiful earth. 

So let's hold hands together to bring the beautiful smile lost from our mother earth long back. Let's give her a Guffaw. That itself makes our beautiful faces give a beautiful smile. All the best and keep moving. Have a beautiful, smiling day.