THE KITTENS, SOMEHOW, SURVIVED

 


“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

Carl Sagan

 

A while ago, I was talking to a friend of mine from Kerala. The topic of discussion was, how, through tough times, some survive, while some don’t. He gave me an example of what he had just witnessed around him. Apparently, one of his elderly aunts, who was fair and beautiful, suddenly seemed a lot anxious to notice some dark patches on her face. When she went to see her doctor, he prescribed some cream so to do away with those dark patches from her fair face. But, then, Covid struck her the very next day, and within the following two days, she was gone!

Meanwhile, in the same household, a cat had given birth to four beautiful kittens. As soon as the babies were born, some dogs attacked the mother cat, and the babies were left orphaned, all of a sudden. There was fear of attacks from not only the dogs, but also from some male cats. The kittens, somehow, survived… “Now, they are young, hale and health,” says my friend..

Carl Sagan was right: “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

As human species, most of us are too concerned about saving our fair complexion, while Nature takes its own course to save or not to save us…

Each one of us, here, is left to defend himself or herself. In the process, some survive, some perish…

The little kittens survived somehow, even though they were orphaned as soon as they were born… They survived despite being surrounded by ferocious dogs and male cats…

Our fate hangs somewhere between that of my friend’s aunt and their four-little kittens…

“They tried to bury us,” said Dinos Christianopoulos, “They did not know we were seeds.”

                               


                          

Each one of us, here, is left to defend himself or herself. In the process, some survive, some perish…

The little kittens survived somehow, even though they were orphaned as soon as they were born… They survived despite being surrounded by ferocious dogs and male cats…

Our fate hangs somewhere between that of my friend’s aunt and their four-little kittens…

“They tried to bury us,” said Dinos Christianopoulos, “They did not know we were seeds.”



Yes, Nature takes its own course…

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

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