Save The World...

So they say today is World Environment Day. Good!

But I am confused. "Environment Day" - Isn't the phrase just ironic? It has been my understanding that environment ( or nature or big bang or small bang whatever that is) created "day" for us just like it created night, air, water, fire etc etc.

Environment creates day for us and now, we create a Day for the Environment - June 5th. Nice, ironical though.

Of course, it is us who are the reason for this irony. Because without our greedy consumption of natural resources, one would never have to worry about the depletion, the climate changes and the least about making movies about global warming and such like and the very need to have a day in calendar wouldn't have arisen. A day, to remind people that we never 'give back' to the environment what we have been draining from it all along.

When I think about this, the environment day and the awareness about saving it, it reminds me of the Indian Independence struggle. Imagine the Environment as India and the whole Mankind as the British. Just like the British ruled India and decided what to do with India against the Indians' choice, Mankind rules the Environment using it the way we want, paying no heed to what the environment wants and draining out every good thing that is there and never bothering to refill.

At least the Indians had a voice, in the form of the leaders, but here, environment can't even resist loudly and the resistance is too small for many of us to even hear it. If you put your ear out carefully and listen, the trees/air/sea/earth around you are crying out to be saved from the people, just like we Indians did for independence. And for once, lets hear the cry and do what we can.

If you think this is like any another "Day" [read Fathers/Mothers/Friendship/Valentine's] and decide to go buy a card and give it someone on this occasion, you are mistaken. Because the very idea of this day is not to give cards.. Card -> Paper -> Cutting Trees -> Kills environment. So no cards please. And if you are thinking of calling your friend and wishing him "Happy Environment Day", you are not allowed to that too. First, there's nothing "happy" about it. Second the cellular waves, the sound.. all of them cause pollution which again is bad to the Environment.

So think twice before wishing someone about today. The best you can do is go plant a tree, avoid plastic, slow down on using your mobile phones, give your vehicle rest some times, and if possible, reduce your power consumption. Not just today, but everyday. It will do good for you, me, the environment and we will be saved in more than one way.

Save the environment. Save the world. We do not want tsunamis, earthquakes, melting Himalayas, rising Indian Oceans and people like me writing about it.

I Write

What would my autobiography be called?

That's the question I have been asking myself these days.

I think the title of an autobiography is what makes it interesting. It is obvious that the readers know a thing or two about the person in question already as, in all probability, he/she is/was a famous person. So the only thing that lures one into reading a book written about someone is an intriguing title.

It should be both - a phrase that catches the attention of the reader, and also a phrase that perfectly represents the life story of the person. I am not sure many people have come up with such titles. Most of the times it would be "Autobiography of.. " or "The story of.." which makes it bland and normal. Or in other cases, it will be a perfect phrase that catches the attention but does not match the content.

Coming back to the thought of mine, if I were ever to write one, it would be anyone's guess to think that it would be named "Questions without Answers", but no. Being an optimist, I would like to think that I would've found the answers to most of the questions before I start writing down my story, if ever I would. I would like it to be something along "Answers to Questions without Answers" not "Questions without Answers", or would it be too long? I don't know. :-)

I came up with one in the title of the post, but am not sure if someone had already used it up.

I thought its not worth wasting the weekend thinking about something that I might not even do, so I let it go but the thought found its place finally on this blog.

So titles are welcome. No royalty will be paid though ;-)