A walk to...

Men in mid 30s wearing flashy nike shoes are jogging all around wondering about the stock markets and the outcome of today’s cricket match. Women are walking gossiping about their mother-in-law. Old ones are giving their opinions on the recent results of Punjab elections to their mates as they were the heads of Election Commission. It seems they are dawdling the things to take the most of these few happy moments.

A number of teams each with a couple of people are playing cricket at every 15 ft of distance ( I sometimes wonder  if there was no cricket, what would be the Indians doing..!!). A 8 month old girl is trying to stand on her barely 3 inches of feet and play with the grown ones. A boy is approaching a football resting in ground as he would kick it directly into the goalpost. Suddenly, someone calls him from back,”Oye Ronaldo, aj tera din nai hega..”(Hey Ronaldo, today is not your day). And his words worked and the ball instead of going to the goal post comes to me standing outside the post.

Then there are some poor and abandoned children searching for their happiness in that of others. Now, you would be wondering about the place I am talking about. It is a park 200ms away from my house.

I felt delighted when I saw this kind of environment. But when my eyes turned to see a heap of waste, all my excitement deflated…

In fact, this is the story of each & every park in India. We blame govt. for the poor maintenance of parks & their negligence towards them. But did we care about this when we threw the toffee wrapper on the road yesterday. Don’t we have any onus towards them..?? These parks are for us only..their plight will ultimately affect us, not the government. We need to realize that we have a certain level of responsibility towards the environment. And if each citizen takes responsibility of his actions, a lot can easily be achieved. As they say,

“Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand

Make the mighty ocean,

And the beauteous land…”

And then there will be a entire new environment…!!