The Girl with the YElloW BoTtlE

This morning I was “again” late for office. I left the room in a hurry and was searching in my bag for my phone ( I never understand why my bag all of a sudden looks like a mess and I’m trying to find a needle in the haystack!!? ) . So there I was standing in the middle of the road just a few meters from my room, when I saw a group of 3 girls (about 7 or 8 years) walking out from the school. Oh I forgot to say, my room is just next door to the school, so usually I can hear the chatter and shouts from my room in the mornings. :) :) :)

From their conversation I understood that one of the girls had bought a new pair of chappals and was showing it off to her friends :D  I could hear the oooooohs and aaaaaaahs :D..They walked towards a nearby well and one girl was purposefully swinging a yellow water bottle. My unfruitful search for my phone was abandoned as I saw her pour the water in the yellow container into the well!!!

If I was that girl...

I have never heard of or seen anyone put water back into the well. I wasn't sure what she was saying to her friends, but I did hear her say that we shouldn't waste water.  I stood there thunderstruck  We believe in the policy of "Give and Take", but how are we giving back to our world!? The Earth is like the well where we all take water for ourselves without a single drop of remorse that one day we may be suck the Earth dry, like how it is happening to many wells around us.

What all the thousands of awareness videos, pictures could convey, that small girl with her yellow water bottle conveyed in one small gesture. We no more live in a world of Abundance where we can lavish and wallow in the gifts that were bestowed to us. In the temptation to make ourselves comfortable and cozy, we fail to see the bigger picture. There will come a time when our small tiny spheres of interest will collapse as we burden our Mother Earth.  Let us Go Green, Blue and whatever conservation we can do. Let’s be a part of it all. It’s never too late!!!