Let us feel the smile

Now-a-days most of us do not plant trees because it is a very slow process. Trees grow slowly absorbing years of sunlight and nutrients. They bear fruits after a long wait. But modern man is impatient and restless. He wants immediate return in a huge a scale. His desire for immediate gain and the tardy growth of trees are two antagonistic things. The trees cannot keep pace with the impatience of the greedy man. The relationship between tree and man is blurred in the thickness of materialism.

In the past man was a jungle dweller. He lived in the serenity of nature. But now he dwells in concrete jungles and hides from the realities of life in the name of progress. Surfing in the cyber space and browsing numerous television channels have pushed human minds into extreme artificiality. Most modern men are lost in a virtual world and when they wake up to reality they need to eat something. So they purchase packaged food and carry them home in polythene packs. These polythene packs choke the environment but they are least concerned about it.  They will soon slip into their virtual world of emails and computer-screen-existence. In the hectic rush of life we burn the world around. Gallons and gallons of fuel are daily burnt to maintain our pace of progress. We burn everything. We consume everything. We stripe the nature of its resources. We loot. In a nut shell we degenerate the world into a graveyard.

But the birth cries of each newborn pose a vital question on our selfish and reckless attitude towards Mother Nature. The smile of a baby is a strong signal to rethink our responsibilities and obligations. Each smile that sprouts on the toothless face of a newborn obliges us to plant a tree and rear that with that human child. So let us feel the smile before turning the world into an ash pond.