Living the moment

Its raining

Pouring from different directions

A flute begins to play

The sound is coming from within a nest

It sounds like the last song

For the tree is slowly giving in

While it breaks and falls

the song continues

More sounds join

A toad crocks, your heart beats louder

Clouds form in your eyes as well

The rains mix in secrecy

Little children look at you

They know just how you feel

they blow lovely kisses telepathically

From that instant

you zoom out and away

Magical clouds fast forward

I am totally obsessed with clouds. This one is just before it started raining today. It was such a treat ! It always is.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Generally for us- humans ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’, but in the case of waste it is more of an ‘Out of sight, Out of mind,’ attitude even though we are the biggest creators of waste.

Waste Management is set up in a manner that lacks structure and most of its components are not in place. Most of us do not know the basic segregation rules. We don’t know the purpose of blue and green bins and that is why collection points brim with diseases, ready to explode. They not only put the garbage collectors into danger but also prove to be highly hazardous to the land, water and air. This pretty much constitutes everything around you. There has been enough blame game on who is responsible. Major blame is received by the Municipal departments but at the end of the day, the fact is that we make these departments, we run it, whether from inside or out.

Some of the major problems of waste management are untimely and improper collection of waste, littering, indiscriminate dumping and burning of waste. Of course the root cause lies in production of waste but let us not get into that for now.

When not managed properly waste directly hurts the environment and our health. Almost every health problem is caused by improperly disposed waste. It is not only about what you dispose off but how you do it as well. Mechanisms are put in place but they hardly connect the dots.

I am an environmentalist but so are many others. The question is – if there are so many of us then why is earth still in a terrible condition? When we raise our voice against atrocities on humans then they react and fight it out but when we raise our voice for earth, we cannot expect the same from her. Naturally, we will expect the inhabitants of earth to react.

Today we are just touching the surface of the problem and not going deep into it. Maybe it is because depth is too scary or too tiring to reach. Either way, the problems are within.  We have to start taking positive and practical steps, starting from the root towards the surface in a sustainable and balanced manner.