The life claimed..
June 29, 2011Long long ago ...Aha...he opened his frail eyes for the first time and saw the blue sky...and realized his senses to the delighting smell, the smell of the oceanic waves ...and how sweet that sound of waves hitting the shores...what a beautiful life.... the just hatched baby turtle with his little paws started racing towards the ocean....he was excited when he saw hundreds of cute little turtles running along ... perhaps, he thought, all his brothers and smiled....his heart thumped with a childlike ecstasy....a new life....smell of a new life.......he ran faster.......But.
But suddenly it’s so dark...nothing is visible.....many hours ..many days....how can it be so? The little one was so scared ....so thirsty …. So hungry…everything was so beautiful just for a moment and now it’s darkness everywhere......it must have been long time, it felt like many lives for the little one till he saw the light....and when he saw it…it was eye blinding bright...he found himself in the sea of sand...it was extremely hot for his just brooked flesh...he could barely see...he could barely walk on the sand....poor one could never understand that life was not unfair to him… he was a victim of trafficking.
Thousand years of instinct...even when he didn't know what death is ....he knew he was about to die....but hey!… what is this leafy thing, he thought before eating few leaves of the shrub…he could live for some more time.
Life has begun in the worst possible way for him....he kept going alone in the sand...for countless days.....he has survived many sand storm…every time nature buried him under sand, he came out with indomitable spirit…feeding himself on whatever he could get....everyday, he thought, was his last day.
On one such a day he smelled something strange from distance...something very attractive, enchanting...he ran faster....and could not control but to run into it...water that was....for the first time he touched water...he drank it ..drank it till his thirst was quenched…he kept drinking realizing for the first time that water is his life.
He stayed there for weeks...feeding himself on small insects in the oasis....he made a friend too...a frog....Frog was intelligent...he would talk about different places and different animals and about life....he made little turtle aware about himself…and that he must go to ocean where he will find his real life.
After few months...turtle...started crawling again…not knowing if he will be alive or not....but it really didn't matter....he kept going.... slowly the sand changed in to land....he had many things to eat now....for years he kept walking in the search of a destiny....finally he came to a river...and for the second time in his life he was delighted....he stayed there for years…made many good friends and stayed there till he realized again that he must head for his destiny again, the ocean...he started his journey along the river ..he knew
from his friends that it would take him life to reach his destiny, but he must not stop.
On the way, in the rivers…he always made new friends...played with them…stayed with them...but inside, he knew something is missing...and he would move on....many years passed, he grew big...he grew mature.. he became courageous and invincible against odds of life.....but he never quit his journey....even when he made the best friends.....shrimps, fishes, frogs and many others.....he would never quit....from the day he was born, he knew only one thing... to move on....to the destiny.
Many years after he started his journey, he finally did reach his destiny, to the ocean.....the same smell...same sky and same noise that he heard when he came to life....he ran...he ran faster than he could...to embraced the ocean...his home ...his life....he has seen the world far more than anybody would have seen in that ocean.....he has come back.....with the great courage and perseverance.
There he lived happily after…he raised a family...had many children…and lived for four hundred years.......a life won...fetched away from the jaws of death with shear determination and perseverance...with indomitable spirit....with the love of life....he lived there...enjoying the smallest moment....everyday, remembering the importance of life....he lived 'The life'....long long ago...for many many years!