It is raining heavily
today. We welcome the rain and the clod breeze. For this day, the rain is a
blessing to us all in our state. It was hot for the past six months. The
atmospheric temperature rose above 40o Celsius (104o
Fahrenheit and above) on many days. Many people in our state suffered from sun burns.
It was never like this
before. We used to enjoy a moderate temperature throughout the year and were
proud of it. Everything changes these days.
As I wrote somewhere
in another blog, we have some fruit bearing bushy plants and a small vegetable
garden. We grow some flowering plants too. Everything together gives our home a
nature friendly appearance.
I love all these, but
am poor in caring for them. I am rather busy with my own engagements and miss a
personal relationship with all these. I am really sad of it.
My wife takes care of
all these bushes, plants and vegetables. She waters them every morning and
evening. She is very particular that the soil must be wet always. Her face
fades if any leaf fades.
This summer made some
correction to the story. Last rainy season was not good for our state. So water
scarcity was foretold and it really happened. Our wells went dry.
We have a rather good
well and a public water supply connection to our house. By the month of
January, our well showed signs of poverty. We had to fully depend of public
water supply system. Tragedy hit there too. The Water Authority who was the
government authority to maintain the water supply system has some sources of
water here and there. They pump water from there to all houses. Unfortunately,
the unprecedented draught hit their water sources too. They failed to supply
water regularly.
We, the inhabitants of
our state, Kerala (India) never went through such a scarcity of water. We did
not know what to do to sustain our life.
Scarcity of water is
the talk everywhere. The parching heat of the summer added to the trouble. We
have the habit of bathing thrice a day even in rainy and winter season. The
heat demanded more baths but we could not get sufficient water.
This is how people
change their life style.
We had no sufficient
water to sustain our life. Then how can we water our vegetables and plants
twice a day. My wife realized the fact and stopped watering plants and
vegetables. At times, whenever we got surplus water (that was rare) she poured
a mug of water through the plants and vegetables. She could not do any better.
The survival of man
became more important than the survival of flowering plants.
As it rains heavily
from this morning, I looked at the fruit bearing bushes, the flowering plants
and vegetables. Some of our plants and vegetables have disappeared. Bushy tress
survived.
I am happy to find
that many of our plants have survived this unprecedented hot summer with a mug
of water they occasionally got.
They taught me a
lesson.
Troubled days test our
sustainability.
Are we sustained by
the support of somebody else or are we living on our own foot.
During this hot
summer, we left all the bushes and plants to find their own life support. We
could no longer support them. They we left to deicide their own fate. None
extended a helping hand. They could not expect help and support for their life
from anybody else. Everybody is struggling.
We will be left alone
in our troubled days. We have to go through the hard path all by ourselves.
This struggle is our own.
There is one positive
thing about this.
Many of my plants and
vegetables survived those troubled days. I do not how, but there are many still
there enjoying the new rain.
As I looked at them,
they seemed to shout with joy that, “we have made it.” They have proved their
mettle. No parching heat of the sun can defeat them.
How they did it? They
found their own way to sustain their life. They decided on their fate.
What they might have
done?
1. Accepted
that fact that these are bad days.
2. Accepted
the fact that none else can help or support them
3. Adopted
them to survive through the troubles.
4. Were
not discouraged to see some of their friends fall dead beside them.
5. They
decided to fix their future and decided to live.
6. A
mug of water they got occasionally was not sufficient, but was thankful for it.
7. Finally,
how they survived is a mystery to me and will be to all us – they found a
mysterious way to sustain themselves.
Troubles are there in
our life. Troubles are for finding the mysterious way to sustain ourselves.
Troubles will enable the sustainability for those who wish to live.
Further reading:
Professor
Jacob Abraham
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