Friday, March 10, 2006
Celebrating…???
One fine morning, some strange noise in our room caught my attention. Two birds were trying to build a nest in our room ventilator. With the view of helping them, we placed a shoebox near the ventilator so that they can build their nest in that.
Next day, we noticed that the two engineers (No Comparison to our engineers), started building their nest. … Not in the shoe box, but the place they chose initially. The nest was built. The male bird would jump around making a lot of noise and the female bird was sitting on its eggs and enjoying its partner’s happiness. Well, they were happy and we were happy watching them.
Dec 31st night, a night to be celebrated, a night to fire crackers, a noisy night. We had a lot of fun in our room.
The New Year morning. My friend woke me up with news… Not a good one. We saw one of the bird’s eggs broken on the floor. And the birds have left the nest. When we checked the nest, we saw one egg in the nest. We thought the birds would come back to the nest for their egg. After a while, we noticed that the male bird came and started disturbing the nest and threw the other egg down. What could have gone wrong? Was it the loss of one egg that shattered the bird? No idea!!!
My perspective of this incident is that, the noise on the 31st night must have scared the birds and in that confusion one of them must have dropped the egg.
This incident made me realize one thing. One’s happiness might be a misery for others. Should our happiness be at the cost of other’s happiness???
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4 comments:
Hello Raja,
After reading the birds story, i can understand your emotional conclusion at the end and the message.
But one thing i noticed is - It is not your/friends mistake. The birds have choosen a wrong place for their Happy Home.
Personally i feel. There is always a Right Place for any thing, here the bird may learned a lesson, that not to choose a apartment for their home :-)
But i agree with u r conclusion, that, at the what cost we want to be happy :-)
raja, i did not understand your attention. You started a story by saying about birds and ended by asking the question at what cost we want to be happy. This is sth(at what cost) which cannot be quantified. We should not disturb others or cause problems for our happiness. Thats right. Everyone agrees. But you noway involved in egg's damage, this is sth extra-ordinary which practical persons can not digest. If you are that much sensitive, then it is very tough to enjoy yourseld or live happy. Bottom line is good but not the narration or arguement which u provided.
Dear Anonymous,
U said that The birds have choosen a wrong place for their Happy Home.
May I ask the question "have we, human beings , chosen the right places to build our concrete homes?" Who has given us the right to claim that whatever place we go and live belongs to us. Not long ago this whole world was a jungle where every creature has the right to live happily wherever it can. A cruel animal called homo sapien entered the arena and suddenly everything changed forever. He encroached everywhere and made the beautiful world a concrete jungle.
Hi Mohan,
You might be a matured (or confused) Mohan now thinking about happiness to every form of life (or feeling sad for no good reason as birds' nest is never save in a house hold environment). The better thing what you should have done is to make the birds flew at right time even before they try to multiply their family to avoid the latter that happened. However, you looked for your happiness which in turn cost the lives of those birds' begottens. Hence, as the birds had (they might have) learnt a lesson, I guess you too had learnt something from that incident so that 'Celebration' at any time can have its significance...........
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