The Magical Tree
and the Thief
A criticism
on development measures
The most important thing to live is breath, the breath
requires pure oxygen, and pure oxygen comes from tree.
The magical tree has fallen from the lot that’s being
carried by the bullock-cart to somewhere, he fallen on the mid of a busy main
road, from where every 5 minutes( approximately) a carriage would pass,
unknowingly he was made to wait for his possible death until a poor kid from
the nearby hut found it and playfully planted it on the
road-side, the kid's heart was innocent and selfless and when his pure & unselfish hand poured water and
soil on the plant - nature made the tree "magical".
For some time when the plant was very fragile and delicate
it was very well taken care by the kid like his younger brother, the kid’s eyes
were filled with love and despair for the young plant when they were replaced in the name of development and made to leave the town, however the plant was not so strong
and needed care, he survived, nature protected it, he grew bigger and stronger,
his branch’s spread as if wanted to touch sky.
Time changed and in the name of development four-lane roads were made in front
of it and shopping malls in the plot from where the kid’s family was replaced, however
the importance of tree being there only grew, the fully AC shopping mall has
never being able to cool them enough, people only found calm and solace under the
tree’s shades, the tree make them take a nap while waiting for bus/taxi /auto
and then when the time came, he gently wake them up with a splash of wind.
On the day the magical tree completed 20 years of his life, on a
dry summer day when the sun was high enough to burn skin, a thief while passing
from there choose to stop being attracted by the cool surrounding around tree.
In his mind he was planning to break someone’s house in the night, someone
known to him, someone who went far for few days, then with the money he wished to buy an attractive Smartphone, the tree got to know his intention and he prepared
very cool breeze to blow through him, plan worked and he slept, he went to deep sleep, while
he was sleeping, all his bad intentions, negativity, failure, frustration and
depression which made him thief started coming out as CO2 through his nostrils,
the tree soaked them all through its branch’s, he then asked his leaves to supply him pure oxygen and mix it with honesty,
hope for a new life, enthusiasm and pride, they did the same, the man slept for
12hours and the process continued.
When he open his eyes, it was morning and he saw the sun
smiling through the green leaves of the tree, for him it was a new sun, as if
he is watching it for the first time, he smiled back, he was a changed man, he
looked around and got an idea of restarting his life afresh, being
self-employed with the money he saved, he started selling lemonade under the
shades of the tree, the man realized that the tree is indeed magical, he never
left the place for coming few years, he started earning a lot, he got famous
for his tasty lemonade, those who have it once will definitely have it twice and
then every time they would pass, all bus’s , cars, auto filled with
passenger’s, shared taxi would stop by it, they found the site very fascinating
and they all loved lemonade.
The place and lemonade was liked by people of all class, the
man very humbly take appreciation from all of them and he start’s believing
more and more on the magical tree, the students
would say it’s delicious, the old retired govt. employee would say coming here is most
peaceful experience, he sit there for hours as if allowing the tree to convert his years of accumulated frustration into peace of heart, the intelligent one’s while manifesting the ambience say, it’s
magical, the spiritual one sit for hours in meditation under the tree says
it’s close to ecstasy, the housewife says it’s the best lemonade I ever tasted, the
working one’s say coming here is like rejuvenation, the labor class who walks
on foot to reach there say it evaporate all our tiredness and weariness to
somewhere as if they never existed and they choose to take a jolly nap, the tree will just
smile on it and feel proud of its existence.
Everything was fine until that one gloomy day when there
were dark clouds in the sky and darkness hid the sun when in the name of development they ordered
to cut the tree, and nobody came to save it, except the man who himself was
weak, powerless and helpless, they all came out of house on road to watch the
fall of a giant and splendid existence and they say nothing, the unselfish
deity who gave so much to the world at least deserved a natural death but he
was killed in public like a criminal given for mass-slaughter, after uprooting
he was left there for days and he slowly saw his death coming, his leaves
started drying they were all weeping but he could have done nothing to help
them, he has only taught them to convert negative into positive, bad into good,
CO2 into oxygen, they were fighter’s of different kind.
An author from the nearby apartment who derive inspiration
by watching the tree from his window felt deeply hurt and depressed with this
incident and informed journalist’s and media, the media came and they had to be convinced on making an emotional video on the death of tree, those who once enjoyed the shades of tree
now joyfully climb on his dead body as if they got victory on nature, a group
of people found enthusiastically cutting it’s branch’s with kulhari , women’s as if came to attend a
fair, happily collecting leaves and woods
, few modern one’s found capturing pictures, it all resembled a group of wolf’s
surrounding the dying animal, keep biting and eating it while it’s still
struggling for life and alive.
The magical tree had a very painful death, painful because
it received just opposite to what it has given, however it never learned to
expect from others, it at least wished for a natural death, he was indeed
magical but he never learned to harm, he slowly embraced the death with the
blessings for the mankind to whom it unconditionally, unselfishly and kindly served.
But nature watch it all, and it got angry with the unnatural
killing of its dearest magical tree, a noble soul with so much of love yet to be given and it
cursed the town, the dark clouds started getting darker, the speed of wind
started raising soil’s into sky and took form of a deadly storm, and it hit
those standing on the chest of magical tree with kulhari, clouds started thundering with anger and bolt’s of
lightning fallen on few on them, then only they all left it and get inside home
for saving their life, and it started raining heavily, it didn’t stop for next
12 hours, it make the river’s flow on four lane roads, and drowning those who
placed order to cut it and those enjoying his death, there dead bodies were
made to float on dirty drains and they were never found by their family,
somewhere in the dark tunnel they keep rotting were rats eat them, and snakes
crawl on them, and the entire town was made to suffer, and they start weeping
and sobbing and lamenting - how can God be so cruel?
(Note: Think about it, written with good intentions)
