Saturday, April 18, 2020

THE LOST HOPE

            The lost hope

   One day a young man named Samar and his wife Samia were travelling in their car across a dense forest. It was noon
time and the sun was upon heads. On the way they heard some noises and cries. There were a lot of conifer trees and flowered angiosperms of varied varieties. Samia suddenly felt thirsty because the day was very hot. So Samar stopped the car and helped her to get off from the car and went in search of water here and there. Finally they found a small water body in the form of a  stream flowing across the forests . So they went to the stream to drink water. While they were drinking water and refreshing their faces with the jolts of water Samia suddenly heard a chirping sound.
"What's that sound"? Did you hear she asked Samar.
The chirping voice came again Samar went along side the stream so as to know the reason behind the sound and looked here and there in the forest as well as water. He found a bird on a stone which was in the mid of the stream.
"Samia, look ! A bird". he exclaimed.
When Samia saw the bird, she said poor little thing! we can't leave it to die here. We must take this creature with us.
Samar first asked her not to take the bird along with them because they had to travel a lot as they belonged to far off area which was about 15- 20 kilometres from the road. But Samia did not hear any word of Samar. She was already holding the bird in her hands and walking towards the car. Samar felt very happy because his wife was his life as she was playing happily with that little creature and internally he was feeling sorry for refusing her to take away the little bird. At last both husband and the wife reached home happily. When they reached home Samar said to his wife if she might forgive him for his refusal to take the bird with them from that stream and he said "you were right we must not have left the bird to die. We will keep it and we will make a good nest for it so that it can live a happy and prosperous life.
Few days later there was a seminar organised in their village regarding the topic " How To Conserve Endangered Species Of Plants And Animals". And the scholars who were conducting seminar went to Samar's house in order to lunch because he was the most honourable person of his village. He arranged everything well for lunch.
When they had finished food  one of the scholars gazed upon the little home which Samar had made on the corner of his house for the little bird.
Scholar asked Samar " what's your pet bird in this little home?.
Sir, I don't know exactly the name of bird but I will show you definitely let's wash our hands replied Samar.
After a while Samar showed that little bird to scholar which they had brought from the forest.
The scholar felt very happy when he took the bird in his hands and he had no words in his mouth to explain the little creature and requested Samar to give him and Samar told him the whole story of bringing that little bird to home
"I will not take it free of cost from you  it's just priceless bird". Said the scholar. Samar as well as his wife agreed to give him the bird in form of gift.
The scholar took away bird, with him in the sanctuary and the authorities of wild life sanctuary offered Samar and Samia with surprise price and jobs in that sanctuary.
"Indeed you are our hope" said the government official to Samar.Both husband and wife were very happy.
The little bird was none other than "The Great Indian Bustard" which is  most endangered species of world heading towards  extinction.
So both Samar and his wife Samia sustained the lost hope of that little bird and world as well.
                       _Jugesh Singh Thakur
              

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