Modern urban life is as good as living amidst those huge ice sheets of frozen glaciers in the Antartica. No, I am not using symbolism. Yea, life there would be warmer compared to the cold vibes city slickers share everywhere, on the street where they burst with road rage, in offices where there are zillion doubles of those who rioted at the Capitol Hill, at home where the warmest place is the inside of the ubiquitous freezer.
Well, beyond such cold crude realities, modern urban life shares with the Antartica a unique similarity. The sparrows do not have habitat there, too! This small, little brown chatterbox, once upon a time not so long ago, was everywhere, except the Antartica. Now in contemporary cities full of crows cawing crudely near the huge mounds of trash or of doves littering balconies, the tiny sparrow is most marked by its absence!
Well, the small little sparrow needs human(e) company to survive. Where are the eaves and roofs it needs to put together its rather roughly rendered nest, as cities now are jungles of high rise buildings that boast of huge French windows with impenetrable glass sheet-y slides?!? Where are the spread out grains it needs as food supplements because most households now prefer 'packed' food or gloat on eat-out's with family-n-friends?
In other words, this birdie who was the topic, the theme of tales told 'once upon a time, not so very long ago' by the elders of the family as tiny eyelids would enter the world of quiet sleep full of sweet dreams is now forever lost from the urban jungle, exactly like all that was good in lives not so very long ago!
Pratima@Are we losing out on a lot, given the mad rush after modernity? Is not the sad abscence of the small sparrow a huge comment on the environmental degradation? High time, we reverse it!!!
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