Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020 3 Comments
Dear Corona!

Respected Dear Corona,


 Greetings!

You will be surprised about the way I addressed you, respected Corona!

Matter of fact, I truly respect you! You made your appearance on the global scene, sometime in January, that too in China, the country which aims at becoming a super power! You tiptoed your way into the life s of the Chinese and literally swept a large number off their feet, sending them to the hospital beds. You collapsed their health system but as human beings are inherently strong and brilliant, they have come out of your sweep today! 

You love travelling, don't you? You roamed around from there through human vectors, to various countries, enjoying the airports and the flights and the air conditioned lounges and get together s and took pleasure in residing in various human hosts. Of course, those who were poorly immune, succumbed to you and you created a panic! You are truly a secular, non believer individual, making anyone's body, "A HOME SWEET HOME", irrespective of color, caste, creed and country! Of course, you give them a breathing time of 11 to 14 days and then ravage their bodies, as if it were a boxing ring! 

I respect you also because you have taught a lesson to us human beings, which no one else could do till today! We think we are too great, we know everything, no one can beat us and our brains but you have defied all of us! At least today, you are the super power! We are scared, we are at our homes, we are helpless and we have self quarantined ourselves! You are a winner! 

And lo behold, you are just a nano particle, measured in nano meters, lifeless outside human body but strong once you enter our cells! You are a believer who becomes one with us, when you unite with us, just like a believer becomes one with god, once he meditates. 

You have so many virtues dear corona, except for the fact that you have presently defeated us, made us helpless! See how you have, in a way, united the whole world, in their fight against you! This is global unity, right? All are busy finding an antidote for the infection caused by you, all want to help the infected, in one way or the other! 

All have, at present, kept the political, financial, caste and creed based issues aside and are praying for your victims. You have shaken the humanity from the core! 

In a way, thank you dear corona but it's enough now! You have made your point, you have won! You have made us introspective, we have realized that we have upset the nature's balance. We have been very greedy and we have tried to snatch everything from the natural resources, unthinkingly! We haven't even cared for our next generations. 

We need to rethink and recuperate! I promise you, we will do whatever best we can! Please spare us today! We will take care of our environment and bring back the balance! We have observed how, in the last few weeks, the humans are hiding behind their doors and how all birds and animals are breathing freely! We wish to bring back the harmony! 

Will you please listen to my plea? 

Take some nice rest dear Corona, 
Let us breathe freely, with the flora and fauna, 
We promise to really behave ourselves, 
To care for others and precious resources, 
We will take care of the beautiful surroundings, 
Will care for coming generations and other living beings! 
Kindly spare us now, dear Corona, 
Excuse our sins, Hume maaf karon na? 


Always yours,

 A desperate citizen of the world!  

Dr Jaya Kurhekar,
Green Blogger
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Friday, March 13, 2020

March 13, 2020 1 Comments

ENVIRONMENT AND MINIMALISM
Environment goes very much hand in hand with Minimalism! Minimalism is living with minimum requirements. This concept is not new, neither is it unused. There are individuals on this planet who believe in living life, using minimum possible things and live it well!
Flying high becomes difficult, if we are loaded with unwanted things or in other words, garbage! Many a times, we accumulate things, thoughts which are not important for life! We tend to lose our freedom, protecting and preserving things, which we think are ours! This snatches our real happiness! If we really wonder what our minimum requirements are, we realize that we are possessing much more than what we need!
As Socrates rightly said, “The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”. It’s our attitude of collecting things, may be wanted or unwanted, thinking that it may be needed sooner or later, that leads us to accumulating trash, in a way, making our “Home Sweet Home” a place of storage! If we get too much involved in non-living things and think of them, spend time for them, spend energy in preserving them, we may lose our time, which we may have otherwise spent for our happiness! We see so many examples regarding this, which will immediately appeal to all of us. We acquire so many clothes, shoes, accessories, which we then rarely use or rather their turn comes after a long time. And moreover, we tend to preserve the older things too, increasing the loads on our wardrobes, shoe racks and cupboards. We build huge houses, few rooms in which are always closed or maintained for those, who rarely turn up! We have three four sets of things like TVs, pen drives, laptops, other gadgets, which we do not use at all. We have more vehicles in the house, than the number of residents. When we spend time to keep the house neat and tidy, we have trouble keeping these things in order. Sometimes, they may clutter the house. Their maintenance becomes costly, as we are paying the maids for cleanliness, paying for electricity bills, petrol, diesel or whatever is required! We are definitely adding a load in the environment! Whenever we get an urge to buy something, we should think twice, thrice, four times, before buying, as to whether it is required or not!
A thing which has not been used for a long time must be considered as a thing unwanted! It may be more required by someone else! In such a situation, it must be given away to someone who needs it more and will be of help to that person! While leading our life, we need only about a hundred things, which are of dire significance. Otherwise these things are truly useless stuff. The lesser the useless stuff we possess, the more will be the freedom we experience!
We will be freer, have more time for our loved ones and for our health, for our hobbies and have a better environment around!
If you talk to a person who is an expert in science of architecture, one who advises about how to keep your house peaceful and holy, he will also advise you to keep it clutter less! So let us pledge to be a  minimalist!

We can change our habits and behavior in such a way that we can use minimum, want less, utilize less, hence save more!!! This will be an environment friendly behavior, where one needs less and saves resources!

Best wishes!

Green Blogger
Dr. Jaya Kurhekar
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