Just when you thought that you are comfortable and life is good, it throws you dominos to keep you running and jumping! At some point in your life all you crave is routine! A disturbance in that will make you restless or feel bad!
If you feel bad then do not do so! As a human, change is the only thing which is constant! If you get too comfortable in your shade and do not invent or create challenges or even deal with challenges then you might as well be dormant!
If you are not still convinced do not be a DODO! Well, actually read about how they became extinct and try to learn from them! It is amazing how much we learn from failures rather than success!
The Dodo is a lesson in extinction. Found by Dutch soldiers around 1600 on an island in the Indian Ocean, the Dodo became extinct less than 80 years later because of deforestation, hunting, and destruction of their nests by animals brought to the island by the Dutch!
Now the Dodo had it all! At one point it might have been slim and fit and even could fly! Then later they got an abundance of food without much work and more importantly they had no natural predators! In short, they had all the comfort in the world and no worries!
All they had to do was sit and eat! Then that made them fat and slow and finally the Dodo grew larger and became flightless!
The big fat birds also trusted everyone and did not run away when approached! Now whether they were too fat or lazy to run was anyone’s guess but the fact of the matter is that it was really sad that all dodo did was trust humans! Big mistake!
When approached by a human, dodo did not run away and the human slowly without any rhyme or reason killed the bird into extinction!
The last known dodo was killed and stuffed and put in a museum. And when the curator thought it was occupying waste space, he ordered it to be thrown and burnt!
All that remains of the dodo is a head and foot at Oxford, a foot in the British Museum, a head in Copenhagen, and skeletons, more or less complete, in various museums of Europe, the United States, and Mauritius! And of course an everlasting testimony of the fact that if you trust humans blindly, more often that not, you may go extinct!
Another thing which is nearing extinction is the art of Puppetry!
Luckily we have people like Padma award winner Bhimavva Shillekyatar who in spite of being over 96 years old, still keeps this art alive!
It is heartening to see such people get the Padma and not those who simply apply a liberal dose of Butter!
Shubh ratri!
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