The Festival of Lights

I recently developed a huge respect for this friend of mine, who's been showing a remarkable concern for our mother earth through her slow but steady endeavor to battle Global Warming.   

Turning off lights before leaving a room, buying things with eco-friendly product scan and returning the polythene bags  to the shopkeepers while carrying a personal handbag are the few of the many little things that she follows to bag the courage to stare hard at Global Warming.
Every birthday she plants a sapling in her locality and takes a deep breath of freshness and satisfaction as she passes by the grown-up trees. I felt that if there exits some nature God looking at her lavish attitude towards Him, then she in her coming days would never be enlisted in the suffering tolls of Global Warming.

But along with her over-generous character she also carries with herself a neglected side that I would like to torch upon.

Out of 365, she spends her 364 days not only in bundling love and care for nature, but also bundling stacks of notes that would blast away the prior bundle into flames. This is one dark side which she 'celebrates' on that day with the bursting crackers and smokes all over.

Now if my Indian friends who are reading this are not the patients carrying the "zero IQ virus", then by now they would have easily made out which day I am referring to. Yes, the 365th day of the year that I am talking about is "Diwali".

"Diwali", commonly referred to as a festival of "lights" is a "dark" day for me and many others who think like me. Just like my friend who I referred to earlier, there are many other so called 'eco-buddies' who show their concern only on the other days. But what they don't realise is that amidst their loud and pollution-loaded celebration, they gift their mother earth an incurable disease called "Global Warming".

I feel I need not ink down further lines to strengthen my point. I am not against celebration, as I too love to be a part of the celebration party. But I am a nature-lover at heart too. Celebration shouldn't be manifested in such a voracious form. Light should be in each one of us, in each of our lives.

My friend who earned her mention in the beginning of this article could have become an epitome of an eco-buddy figure but for her one day long nature-tarnishing activity that striked her name off the list.

I won't say to stop bursting crackers as I know no one would by just reading an article like this.
Instead, I would suggest to use the less harmful and less smoke & sound producing ones.

Money is all ours. It's our choice whether to earn or burn our fortune. Hence this is my humble request to my readers to put the selfish and destructive mood to a side and think about the atmosphere which is the only life-supporting layer of the universe. 

Now if my readers have developed a taste for my peaceful curry, I owe a promise from them to make this Diwali a better festival proving its tag- 'A festival of lights'.