"Rain Rain Go away
Come again another day"
This was the poem I read when my daughter was studying in her 1st standard. Of course, when we were studying, it was always welcoming the rain and not cursing the rain to go away.
In India, it is not a culture to hate the rain. Rain is always seen a new lease of life for villages and biodiversities. Even to an extent that Rain has been given the status of GOD....
For the last few days, it's been pouring as if the sky has been ripped off.
Worst thing is that we crib about rain and crib about the mess it creates. But who is the reason for that? No one likes to talk about it.
It is we human beings who screw up the environment, screw up the roads, block the rain water canals for our greed of building more apartments and making more money. We have asphalted the roads in such a way that there is no place for the rain water to sink into the ground. If this is the case, where will you get the ground water replenishment? After doing all these things, we say that rain has thrown the life out of gear. Is it not that we are the reason for this?
I still remember. When we were children, there was never un-timely rain and there was never a flooding. Even if there were floodings, it used to be in the places where there were huge natural boulders which were somewhere on the outskirts of Bangalore.
We were taught that rains are always the best thing to happen to revitalize the life on earth... So, what are we talking about?
Agreed. And lets not even talk about acid rains that pour over cities.
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ReplyDeleteI couldn't have said it any better. There is no accountability for our actions as human beings. Every day I see people make poor decisions and then expect a miraculous solution to make their lives better. Little do they realize that they themselves are the problem and the solution.