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20000 BC approximately...
Man was hungry. He looked around his surroundings in the forest. There was not even a single animal, until the horizon, to hunt and eat. He did not lose his hope and desire. His hunger made him to examine with more intensity for some prey. At a long distance he saw a small plant of grains. He got life for his life. He plucked those few grains and went back to his cave. Next day, he repeated the same act at a different place but another plant of grains this time. He had to travel miles, daily, into the forest to search for plants with grains. Months were rolling on. One shine day, he got few smart thoughts, "Instead of walking miles daily to pluck grains from plants, which were quite far away from my cave, why wouldn't I cultivate them near to my cave? ". He had gathered few more people, cleared few trees and uprooted plants, to make the land flat. Then he had started cultivating the plants and this was how agriculture was being invented. That was the first axe ever fell on the green lives. The human population increased, with easy availability of food, leading to more hunger, and more agriculture, and hence more axes. More axes lead to more tools, like saw, and further to few more technologies.
Now, man has reached the stage of digital hunger and paved way for electronic saw , but the victims have remained same, the green lives.......
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It was the time of ambiance and aroma of Spring. The huge and macho banyan tree woke up to the birds chirping and he reflected the early morning sun rays on to the leaves and twigs around his stem. Some leaves were dry and some were alive. He was young with his aerial roots accruing to the grounds. His stem was sturdy with young cracks and new crevices. Black ants had already inhabited in those crevices. What made the Banyan excited was the new creeper with beautiful flowers, enigmatic appearance and exotic leaves. She was quite slim and sensuous. He had seen many such creepers in his life till now but this one was special for him, for the reason, unlike other creepers, she was being germinated from the soil between his aerial roots. He admired her branches, particularly those alluring curvy endings and enticing petals . She had grown to the fullest and hugged his stem as if she was made for him. Her flowers added colour to his rusty look. He felt that she had brought completeness of being a Banyan tree. Most of the birds in the surroundings preferred to have nests on him to have the glance of their wonderful combination. He made sure that the bird nests would not interfere with her growth by growing his branches and leaves according to her space and convenience. He absorbed her from stem to tip. He expressed his greelings on her in every possible way. He started shedding his bark regularly now. He knows every leaf and petal of her. He had never commanded or restricted her. He took her the way she was without any conditions. She was growing rapidly and her roots gradually reached the ground from his aerial roots. Now, she had got two supports for her roots, but she still prefers his stem. She started reciprocating her greelings to him. Now, she had spread all over him, not leaving even a single sub branch of him. For him , the hug was complete, absolute and eternal. She was totally onto him and into him. He had become her. They became one though they belong to different species. Her roots were in his stem and his stem longed for her roots. He was quite elated and his entire body was filled with juices of greemotions . A greemotion would be the highest stage of a tree's excitement. He proudly displayed his new attire to the animals passed by him. He felt that he was no less equal than a peacock. He was enthralled by his fellow banyan tree's compliments. He was so blessed with this unique and precious gift by nature. At times, he protected her from the harshness of incessant rains. He stood by her when she became dry and pale during the season of Fall and celebrated with incredible joy when she got recovered with flowers and leaves, by blowing his branches vigorously to vent his greemotions.
The sun was making his cycles. One whine day he woke up to face the most unfortunate situation of his life. She was making steps in the direction away from him. She started leaving him for the reason only known to her. The first step she took was the separation of her roots from his aerial roots of his stem. Now, her roots were having the only support of ground. She was standing on herself . He did not ask her anything nor did she explain him anything. The hug was becoming weaker. He could sense and greel that. She gradually started withdrawing each branch every day . After few days she shifted all her branches from him and now she was totally on ground as if she was crawling on land. Every cell of his body could greel the pain of losing her, though she was in-front of him, in his shade. The pain got multiplied when she began taking the support of another banyan tree. Soon, she occupied the new tree and hugged him, which raked the past of their togetherness. Strangely, she hugged the new tree the same way she used to hug him, complete and absolute. There was no change in her lifestyle and pattern. She looked happy and beautiful as usual. The new banyan tree was also happy for his own reasons. He never complained against her nor asked her the reason of parting ways from him. He was in content with a greeling that at-least she was before his eyes, if not with him. Though he looked sturdy and tough, he was dead greemotionally . His roots started losing grip under ground. The next day, he died..... But what made her to quit him was the ....
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Before the Neem tree could continue the above story, the crow and sparrow got curios and asked the Neem tree, "Why did the creeper leave him suddenly?"
"She was a bad creeper, she was a sweeper", the guava tree shouted.
"She was not a beautiful creeper, she made him weeper ", the bush proclaimed.
"We should never believe creepers", echoed the young mango trees.
"I hate the other banyan tree which attracted the creeper ", the sandal wood tree hissed.
"Be silent guys, let the uncle Neem complete the story first", the tamarind tree said loudly.
The Neem tree resumed the story......
After few days, he died..... But what made her to quit him was an unavoidable compulsion. It was not the creeper who had left the banyan tree, but it was the initiation of the Banyan tree. Indeed, both of them had decided to part ways. The greemotions of both of them were hurt deeply. What made him to take the tough decision was his ability and cognizance to sense that trees were being cut down in the nearby surroundings and he would be chopped down soon . He had only one desire before his death. He wanted to see how they exactly look like when they hug each other and hence asked her to leave him and hug his friend, so that he could greel the reflection and resonance of their hug for the last time, before his leaves stop photosynthesizing. She left him with much greeling pain and agony. Though he was dead greemotionally, he was chopped down to death, by confining him to a stub. The creeper could not bear the greeling of greemotional pain of losing her source of germination before her eyes. The vision of his stub made her to stop photosynthesizing. The next day the stub was also cleared . After few days she was removed from the other banyan tree and was cut into pieces. She was dumped somewhere else.
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All the trees had started shedding few water drops from their leaves.
"I am moved by the story", mango tree said in a low voice.
"It is like a love story", teak tree concluded.
The Neem tree said," No, it was not a love story, as they had never loved each other, they were each other.
Teak asked surprisingly, "But they had died for their love, right?".
Neem replied, "We tress never love like humans, all we do is greemotionalize our greelings. What made both of them to die a greemotional death was not their physical separation, but the thought of separation from the Soil from where they had grown up because every tree dreams of only one thing in it's life. It is to die naturally and get decayed in the soil to give rise to new trees."
All the tress and plants clapped with their leaves and branches for the Neem's wisdom. They were about to discuss regarding how to deal with the injustice of millenniums, but remained silent as they heard sounds of living beings walking on two legs and greedy brains. Somewhere, the sound of electronic saw resonated all over the forest, alarming the flow of greelings and greemotions. The photosynthesis had already started to decelerate.
2100 AD,
Man will be still hungry, not by need, but by greed. He will look around the solar system. Until Pluto, there won't be even single technology that can completely satisfy his greed. His greed will make him to search, with more satellites, for more energy. At a long distance he will see a small planet in the nearby solar system. He will get greed for his greed. He will go there and pick some stones and will come back to earth to do some experiments. Next year he will go to some other planet and will bring few more rocks. He will be traveling trillions of light years yearly into the Milky Way to search for planets with special rocks. Decades will be rolling on. One swine day, he will get few smart thoughts, "Instead of traveling trillions of light years yearly, why won't I shift my base to that planets? " He will make new planets his home and will invent new trigital technology, through which he will rape every planet he lands upon there after in the Milky Way. This is how universe will be facing it's first absolute and complete virus, which will be born out of human's love for machines.....
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Planet Something said," Is love human?"
Planet Anything replied,"Am not sure about it but greed is definitely human"
Planet Everything opined,"Yes, because virus is human, may be, Human is virus"
Planet Nothing concluded,"Love is non-human, because for man, love is pure selfishness"
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* Greel = Feel; Greelings = Feelings.
* Greemotions = Emotions.
PS : This story is fictional and does not confirm to any of the sciences discussed here.
PPS: Here are the posts of my team mates for this contest
Nethra, Anney, Pooja, Swathi, Pranjal, Arjit and Anurag
