Bonding
Once upon a time, there lived two creatures named Mr. Fool and Ms. Phool in a planet called “Andromeda”. They were dissatisfied with their daily chores as they were going through lots of situations which were out of their control. In order to feed their minds with relevant answers to the questions, they wanted to visit different heavenly bodies in universe. The condition was that wherever they found Happiness and peace, they would settle there.
While roaming around the universe, they found a celestial body which was estimated to be around 4.543 billion years old and having a radius of about 6371km. It looked blue and often referred as ‘blue planet’ due to its abundant water, with approximately 70.8% surface covered by oceans. It was a planet called Earth which was rich in flora and fauna with abundant natural beauty. It has a very close connection with sun and moon. Both of these creatures got attracted to the beauty of planet earth, its day and night, seasonal changes, vibrant colours around and made their mind to visit it.
They met a very fascinating creature called ‘owl’. It has distinctive appearance, including a large, broad head, upright stance and binocular vision. It has the ability to locate prey by sound. It has feathers adapted for silent flight. The uniqueness it had, the ability to rotate the head to 360 degrees.
Mr Fool: Hi Owl, we want to be friends with you and wish to know more about earth.
Owl: Hi everyone!! Welcome to earth. Earth is a lovely place to stay in. We enjoy living here.
Ms Phool: Are you happy here?
Owl: Of course, yes!! For me happiness is spending time with my family and navigating this sky. I am a nocturnal bird, so I like to stay awake and active mostly at night. Happiness is all about enjoying little moments in life at present without thinking much about future.
Ms Phool: I am amazed to know about your viewpoint on happiness.
Mr Fool: What do love and bonding mean to you?
Owl: Love is a most important part of happiness which is run through a two-way junction- give and take. Foundation of love is sacrifice from which happiness manifests. Let me explain it with an incidence. I saw a pair of pigeons in brilliant mood. My heart brimmed with joy and laughter by seeing them. I saw them making their shelter out of straws over a flower pot. Both toiled throughout the day for collection of straws in their tiny break. I felt so obliged to see them making their shelter day by day. Then came the role of mother pigeon to lay eggs over the shelter. Father pigeon would take care of the eggs as well. These eggs got hatched and squabs came out one by one. It was the day a joy for the birds.
There was a cat nearby, which was constantly keeping an eye over the squabs. One day the same cat fought with father and mother pigeons to eat those squabs. The fight kept on continuing, in the end both father and mother pigeons gave their life for their kids but it was too late and the small squabs became the pray of cat.
The entire family unified for happiness, grow for happiness and end their life for fighting for happiness together.That was very painful to watch. But I could not help except seeing the entire incidence. I found the love and bonding between these two pigeons was the main lesson to learn.
Both Mr Fool and Ms Phool got emotional on listening to the entire story. They understood the real meaning of life and decided to settle in planet earth forever.
SWETA SARANGI
15-9-2023
