I love watching the "National Geographic", "Animal Planet" kind of videos. Most animals, even the wild ones, anyways, are better than most bipeds, supposedly named 'human' beings. This faith of mine is proven time and again in to a certitude by the behaviour of Tasha, my brother's beagle.
Each time I go to their place, he consciously remembers, and knowingly repeats, each and every activity that I liked about him, the games we played together. And, no, it is NOT for a treat. It is for togetherness and genuine care, concern and love.
No, it is not anthropomorphism. No, I am not assigning human emotions to him. Why am i saying so? Well, I watched a most moving video about a lion cub. Given the emotional trauma it faces, the cub thinks that making any noise is inviting pain, rejection and danger. The cub hence chooses to go completely mute, totally silent.
A vet, who has himself suffered terrible trauma, truly cares for the small one, gives him his voice back, and thus helps him reintegrate in to the wilderness, thus re-gain his real life which, otherwise, he would have lost. In the process, he heals himself, too, without realising it. They live their separate lives, the cub now a majestic lion with a magnificent pride of his own in the savannah, but forever deeply connected, and in a primal remembrance of each other.
The (hi)story, scientifically (re-)searched and documented most objectively, was a truly touching video, deeply emotional, and most importantly, proving that in this heartless, self-centered, and meanly and cheaply selfish world which believes in harassment for amusement and time-pass, what mattered truly is helping the wounded with love, care and concern, an act which truly makes us human(e) and whole.
Pratima@ "Where love, mercy and pity dwell/there God dwelleth, too, " wrote William Blake. I would change the Blake quote slightly though. "Where love, empathy and concern dwell/there all that is best and divine dwelleth, too."
No comments:
Post a Comment