Are we ready to BUY nature??

Mercury soaring high makes me go nuts. Every morning as I awake and glare at the bright sunlight from my air conditioned room’s window, I crave for clean, fresh breeze
but my nose gets stiff with the pollution. Feeling slightly disheartened, I retire to my artificially air conditioned room, still half asleep and feeling restless. Lack of fresh air has made my desire of getting my office shifted to the picturesque Himalayan terrains, even stronger. This takes me to the dream world and I land up in the hills where I feel so delighted with the beauty of nature, my lungs are happy inhaling so much of fresh air and skin just smiles and feels as fresh as dew.

Just 2 days in the lap of nature and I feel an immense rush of energy in my body. I feel like getting up and reaching out to conquer the whole world with my revived energy and rejuvenated spirits. Why am I not feeling drained out today? I haven't read any inspiring books or read about management gurus, haven't taken any energy pills either. This suddenly makes me wonder about the power of nature that has transformed me from a weary and exhausted person to a striving and ambitious dreamer who suddenly has got the power to change the world.

I question myself. Why I feel happy and contented just by talking to the flowers and telling them how beautiful they are? Why I wait for the first rain to come and my feet start tapping merely at the thought of dancing in those rain drops? Would the poetry have been so beautiful if there were no colors in the rainbow? Would I mind having my honeymoon in those dark concrete jungles without a puff and sweet smell of fresh air, with no greenery around? Who will enjoy those long drives without lush green lanes?

Let us do some introspection and contemplate over why we reach out for those far-flung and isolated destinations merely to explore nature, which has always been so near to us. Movies, pubs and malls, they all leave us with empty feelings somewhere, to find a calm place, to sit in peace and serenity. All this gradually becoming far from our reach with commercialization of green lands and coming up of concrete jungles, by not preserving water bodies and converting this earth into a huge trash can.

Are we preparing ourselves to make our children die at younger ages by inhaling aerosol fumes in the polluted air or engulfing food grown and cooked in polluted water?
Are we prepared enough to miss the rains or our morning walks in the parks that have no trees left?

Let us question ourselves and think of why are we depriving ourselves of so much of beauty and healing power of nature. Let us preserve it and conserve those great rivers, birds of paradise, enforce environmental protections and prevent illegal damage to the nature’s diversity. Preserve habitat for those rare species of birds and animals, preserve the global blanket which is a cover to the joys of the nature and let us all care for it with our gentle hands and take a pledge to preserve it.