Nature

Its eight pm and I was dead bored. Flipping aimlessly through the slew of channels; How I met your mother....yawn, Monk - not again, Friends- enough please, Food Network - maybe, the list was endlessly inane. And then my remote stopped working on channel 9 – PBS. I saw it was a nature programme and decided to watch it.

It was a story of a writer Jose Hutto who raised a rafter of wild turkeys from scratch or rather as fledglings. He cared for them as their mother and over the eighteen months he
spent with them( by the time which they had become full grown wild turkeys) there was a unspoken bond between man and bird. He even learnt how to communicate with them and
as he said they redefined the meaning of life for him. Obviously, they were wild turkeys and its in their DNA to eventually branch out and part ways. But the emotions were pretty heart touching to say the least and overall I could empathize the way he felt when the last of the turkeys flew away into the sunset after being bonded so long. It was an hour long and definitely worth seeing and refreshingly well documented in the writer's own words. So true, we have moved away from our natural selves so much that we have to pay now in order to be in touch with nature. We don’t see ourselves anymore a part of nature.

Culture, politics, religion all boil down to defining who each one of us is...an American, a Democrat, an Asian and so and so forth. But can we dig two levels deeper and see we are all human. Where is that spark, the utter realization that in the end we are all human beings in this unique one in a million stars, that we are all children of the same laws of the Universe? Can we ever ever break free of the dogma and rigmarole of identity as defined by rules and laws of our consumption based society and fancy networking sites. Is not our logic or what we call the sixth sense being obfuscated by our nonstop exposure to artificial stimuli; hooked onto the teeny weenie mobile devices or slumped in front of the big box, a passive recipient of "who knows who" promoted media, soaking it all in. Where has the questioning rationale of man come to? Or has technology made life so much easier that we now unconsciously tend to outsource our thinking to someone else in exchange for the co.


Cellphones are needed but mobile addiction is a bane. Everything has a limit and technology too should be kept within bounds before it consumes you. Throw away the handset for some time – believe me the world will not end. Head over to the nearest park or the woods. Walk among the trees, look at the pale blue sky, take in the fresh breeze, observe the ducks, dirty your hands in the soil and then wash them in the nearby stream.
Sit in a shady corner and do nothing just observe and you will find that the small place itself is abuzz with activity. From ants to birds to little spiders; its an entire universe out there. Nature is nothing to be afraid of;it is what was before all this ever was.


Do this every day if possible at least every weekend and over time youe will see how much you have come to appreciate nature. The serenity, the peace, and the aura of wholeness no mobile app, nor game nor any TV show can even think of replicating. It will also start reflecting on our character and give us tons of peace. So important that we take our children and make them appreciate nature. One other reason, why those who love the great outdoors are never home.