Smoking fire to breathlessness!
“Imagine sun to be our father, remotely working to provide energy to our mother Earth. She is constantly working from home to create life using the given energy and generating means of food for all her creations i.e. her children without any discrimination. If any of her children get notorious, It is the mother who will always teach valuable lessons where she expects them to reflect on it. In this case, children would be us, the entire living species of this ecosystem.
Imagine if any of us go extinct because of internal conflicts, It would create chaos and disrupt our mother's natural order of peace and balance. No one is above or below in this order as everyone is equal and play significant roles in this living system.
However, human beings thought they were always superior to others and out of ego they started building a wall between them and the rest of the living world. But, don’t we as humans know already that the oxygen that we breathe in comes from other species such as plants, marine algae and the energy that flows in us as sunlight and leaves out as heat is the same with all the living organisms.
Plants absorb energy and selflessly strive to produce food that is rich in energy passing down to the entire consumers of the ecosystem such as herbivores, carnivores and decomposers in a food web. Without these producers, energy won't enter the food web and the entire ecological community could collapse. The selfless act is what makes the cycle sustainable and paves the way to mutual regeneration.
However, as humans, we are so immersed in our own lives that we don't think about others. We create problems, try to mitigate them with temporary solutions which leads to having more complex issues. For example, we do know that smoking is injurious to health. Every possible box of cigarettes has this sentence written on it with a cover image of our lungs that looks like its burnt and charred. Well, the consequences are pretty much clear through this depiction. However, all we do is ignore while continuing our actions in an endless loop as long as we get what we want. We did come up with different options like nicotine patches, gums etc to reduce the consumption but did we actually stop the production of cigarettes. Don’t think so. It's like we come up with solutions not to eliminate the root cause of the problem but to satisfy someone’s opinions. It all ultimately became a business model.
When do we realize as humans that we are just a bunch of greedy and selfish consumers trying to only dominate the rest of the world?
Did you ever ponder that the material used for making cigarettes is actually from nature itself and all we did is to lit it up? Isn’t it amusing that we are chasing like hamsters on wheels trying to attain dominance through artificial technology competing with the natural world yet nature exists to sustain us and our future?
Man-made a lot of things. For instance, He made a fire to create light in the dark. He passed down this knowledge across the time and now man is not making a fire to clear the darkness but is using it to clear other species for his own selfish deeds. He is filling himself with all the light by pushing everyone else in the dark.
An action made for creation lead to destruction. How ironic is it that these dominant actions lit a fire in our own souls, smoking through our insides in the form of cigarettes leading to slow self-destruction of breathlessness?
It is as if mother earth is trying to teach a lesson to human beings that ultimately the supreme power of destruction is through the creation itself.
Selfish acts can only lead to self-destruction.
As simple as it may sound but true sustainability lies in sharing and caring for the world and being embraced by our mother earth’s wonders of nature and fathers light ” I thought strolling through the night breathing in the chilled air and breathing out with much warmth reminding myself to teach my kids like how my mother and father taught me.
