“Mamma, why do we have to leave our mansion?”
“Aisling, my darling, we have to leave this place because soon this place would get demolished.”
“But why Mamma? Isn’t this place a home to so many trees, there are so many birds which live on them, it is their home. ”
“I know Aisling but this is the way we humans live, when we see profit, we just see that profit and we do not understand the cost that we are paying for that profit.”
“Now go and spend as much time as you can with the nature as this the last time you are going to see it before this place gets demolished. But remember to be home before sunset.”
“After knowing that this is the last time I am going to spend with the nature around me, I felt very sad, I went to the backyard of my mansion which was not less than a woodland and their I started to recite the poem in front of all the trees present there. The words of the poem go by this –
As soon as I finished my poem I heard someone saying, “Aisling, come here, come to me, come Aisling, come.”
I followed the voice that leads me to the corner of my backyard which was covered with bushes and flowers. I searched inside the bushes and there I saw a door, a door hidden behind the bushes. I felt very scared and then suddenly I hear a voice saying, “Don’t worry open the door and come to me, I am your friend.” Somehow I felt very happy when the voice called my name and I subconsciously opened the door.
I crossed the door and saw a bright light and my vision started to get blur and then a complete blackout. When I opened my eyes, I saw that my surrounding was completely white, as if I have got trapped in a room having just white color, no window, no door, nothing was there. I started to find a way out but there was no escape and in the end when I was completely helpless, I saw a lady walking towards me. I wanted to ask questions from that lady but my tongue did not allow, as if my body was giving me an indication to not ask anything.
The lady was standing in front of me and said, “Hello Aisling, my name is Gaea. I have been seeing you since you came into this world. Your love towards my children attracted me towards you. Aisling I want to tell you a story, a story which will allow you to help me save me. Aisling, I was born 4.54 billion years ago and I was given the power to create life. With my power I created water, I created mountains, I created snow, I created nature, and I created animals and then my biggest creation were humans to whom I gave a gift, a gift which allowed them to create things. But I never knew that my own creation would become a cause for my destruction. When humans were born, all of them were very inquisitive, their inquisitiveness allowed them to understand me, but slowly and slowly when they started to gain knowledge, they started to harm my other children. They started to use my children for their own benefits. The humans started to wrongly exploit my creation and the name that they gave to my creation was “Resources”. Their excessive use of vehicles polluted the sky which made my breathing difficult; their desire to build colonies made them kill my children (nature), all those bombs that they dropped on me still pains my hurt. Their so called industries contaminated my water and the lives present in them. Their excessive use of all my resources destroyed the eco-system that I created. Thanks to humans that now many of my creations has started to die as they are not able to handle the enormous change caused in temperature and environment because of the wrong doings of humans.
Their evil doing made me get angry against them, through this anger I created tsunamis, I created earthquakes, I created pandemics, and I created many other things which humans called as natural disasters.
Do you know Aisling what I want? Aisling, I want people like you, I want those people who love me, I want those people who want to protect and I want those people who care for me and my other children (trees, plants, animals, resources…).
You will never know how much you can protect Earth until you try.
Never stop trying. Your miracle will come in undefined moments