A unpublished short story...

Few years back... i wrote this story for a competition. Unfortunately that event was cancelled and it becomes a piece of paper slept at my desk... like many other piece of thoughts slept at my....

Here it goes...

                                             Growing Everyday… with a Smile J  

I walked along the road, I am sweating, this hard blow wind is frying me, go away sun please I murmured …I cannot say loud in the public at Chennai – Election buzz carried away in all the corners ….huh

I think some puncher shop owner might put nails on the road in order to increase the revenue @ recession time; I struggled to pull the 108 Kg bike even on the plain road, There is no place available on both sides of the road to park my vehicle…I want to take water at the earliest…no hope for that.

I am sure I need to walk at least 1 more KM to touch the high way, somehow I managed it without a drop of water. Sun followed me religiously in all the way. I parked the vehicle and ordered for a water bottle.

It cost RS 20 per liter…Reason is simple The shop is on  the IT highway…People started using the word IT more generously for everything…from vegetable vendor to my house owner.

I had the water and parked the vehicle in the same shop.  Hell’ It is just 9:45 am but the temperature might be around 40°C I am not able to wait any more for an auto and thought of reaching office by walk which is just an another 1.5 KM in the highway ..the great IT highwayJ…people used to call like this..as if there is no other company on the road. yaa but still the majority of companies might be in IT.

Tall building covered with shinny glasses started slapping on my face again and again all the way…       

I thought why architects don’t think something different to attract commuters on the road; in fact it is distracting and raising the global temperature.

Do they know? The raise of 2 degrees Celsius average global temperature might be reached within 2050, if there are no concrete steps taken to prevent the global warming. Sea level raise was predicted between 23 CM to 48 Centimeters due to the same. Waiting for the good government climate policy is not going to help us to avoid catastrophic climate changes. We are going to face shortage of water and 20-30% of all plant and animal species at increased risk of extinction if temperatures rise between 1.5-2.5C, Agriculture business fed by rainfall going to be in Vain and it will cause multiple ripple effects… whose responsibility to save this earth?  Whose responsibility to preserve this nature? Screech…. Someone horned and yelled at me …go... left… man... voice and vehicle dimmed slowly..

Oh my god why I am thinking like this? All of this I never thought when I skim thru the News papers or TV any time in my couch at home. Go fast Rahul!  You have a meeting @ 11am.. I said to myself…and started jogging ….                                                                                                                                                                   I almost reached my office … it is just 10:10. I took a sip of water to wet my mouth and saw the same sun which followed me tried to fry the small plant near by the gate. I felt the same way an hour before…  I opened the bottle and poured the remaining water to the saplings. Said  “Go Green” and entered inside the gate. Now the sun is struggling to follow me and the wind is relatively coolJ…

On the return I saw the plant survived and it is growing every day …with a smile.                                         

Now it is bringing smile on my face every day when I enter in to the office and it will do the same job for so many in futureJ.

                    





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