Rains & Nature

The rains arrived last night - at last! - like a woman returning from her mother's place, fussing and fuming, preparing for a quarrel with her husband. Starting from the gathering of gloomy clouds, to the slight sticky drizzle, and finally to the heavy showers accompanied by thunder and lightning, the rains returned last night.

This morning, I went around my little garden looking for the damages. How many life-forms abounded there! Crawling, slithering, jumping, hiding, hanging - spiders, flies, lizards, centipedes, ants, worms, varieties of mites - so diverse was the life forms within that little garden of mine!

Just as I walked up to the terrace, this sight caught my attention. A butterfly was meticulously laying her eggs on a branch of the moringa tree. All that I could feel at this sight was humility and awe at the vastness of Nature around us.

Let's shed our attitude of self-importance, Humans! We are just another species on this planet. There is neither anything special, nor anything superior about us. We are all one tiny part of the glorious Whole!