Story of my Ignorance

                  Story of my ignorance

This is a special article that shows you my ignorance towards inevitable things. A family, just opposite to my Grandma’s house had a huge neem tree and they considered it to be sacred. Every morning, they used to perform pooja and they simply became devotees of that immobile organism. A few days later, they were renovating their house. They were constructing a big one and the tree was right in the middle of their expanding territory. Everyone expected them to chop the tree. But, they terminated their construction right before the tree. I thought they were being ‘STUPID’. When road was being laid, the construction authorities decided to remove the tree by purchasing the small piece of land that had the tree. They were ready to pay double the cost of that small piece of land. But the tree- devoted family wasn’t ready to remove the tree at any cost. I thought they were being ‘SENSELESS’. Now, it has taken me eighteen years to realize that they were extremely right in what they were doing. No one has seen God. Yet, we believe in god by giving him/her different structures. That family did the same thing by giving god the structure of a tree. You know what? Knowingly or unknowingly, that family was apt in deciding their god. What does God do? He creates you, designates a place on Earth for you to live, protects you and finally kills you taking into consideration your bad deeds. Trees in the form of Nature provide the necessary atmospheric conditions for our birth, they protect us by providing oxygen and they never kill us! So, they are probably better than our own Gods. We believe that God is everywhere, from the chair we sit to the books we learn. Trees have also made their mark everywhere in the world, from the chair we sit in the form of wood to the books we learn in the form of paper.

All these years, it was me who was being stupid and senseless……