a day in the life of... (1)

the following is a figment of my imagination: life from the eyes and beaks of a sparrow

"say, whats up bandit eyes?" the wife asks her dude.. "nothing doll, jus goin out to be the early bird u know... gettin some scraps, some grains, if lucky, then an unlucky worm, some twigs n stuff for the renovation due..the usual.. whats up with u?".. "well, same same.. il go hav some territorial outbursts, some high pitched yelling and some jumping arnd the orchard, evading the nigger crows and jiggling on them human's windows ya know.. usual.. usual..".. n the dude goes, "all rite love, u go do ur thing, n il go do mine".. n so the day begins.

the delicate twitters and tweets we hear are in fact, raging verbal battles with some midair acrobatics to determine the victor of said territory.. "im bigger than u, jerk.. fly away now wen u still can.. or els, il hav to dispatch u with a special note..".. "oh yea, bring it on tough guy".. and 2 min later, the victor stays behind, scours the place for a prime spot to built the twig palace.. n then returns to base.."honey, im home.. got us a swell new place uptown.. lets go check some real estate out!.." ..... "oh yea, ur rite.. this place rocks..!.. our kids will love the garden, n i c no nasty species around either.. safe n comfy.. hmm ".

several hours later.. in the grand congregation under the peepal tree.. which houses over 57 sparrow families... "amist yells of "so, how was ur day, any near hits, misses, with cricket or tennis balls?.. any fights, wins, losses?.. any stalemates, any new chicks? alpha males? did u check their new home? looks nice, when r we moving??"... n then there's silence.. as the crickets get into 2nd gear

Le chat est à plat

the vicious feline stared at the screeching tyres of the accord... less than 3 seconds ago, the same had almost flattened the scrawny cat on the concrete... afternoon siestas are just not what they used to be... gone are the days when the average stray cat could laze around on a spot, reeking of sloth... the extended yawns, body lickings, carefree attitude have given way partly to the unavoidable sense of dread, that something could be lurking around the corner, poisonous fumes, radial tyres, trash, human scorn... 

cats have always been victimised as pampered, stereotyped as being lazy and high-aired, disgusting and treacherous... they arent any of that.. being descendents of the big cats, the rulers of the jungle.. they have inherited the royalty.. they just feel the need to look down at others.. nothing arrogant, just genes at work...hence the coined phrase goes.. 'treat a dog nice, it treats u like a god,.. treat a cat nice, it believes it is god'

devolution 101

one can only look at the remains found today and speculate the course of evolution of plants and animals.. looking at fossils, studying the variations in the patterns and structures of organisms of then and now, and extrapolating them to draw a sortof clear picture of the transition of the same.. with us, well we now know that we were all chimps in the beginning frolicking on the branches of kenyan forests.. we were happy n we knew it.

n then, we spread out, evolving along the way.. we had opposable thumbs, and made use of that.. slowly, the evolution became apparent, with the speech development and communications... we became smart, talented, resourceful... that was then... now, if u threw in elements of modernization and the aftereffects of the applications of our ingenuity, we've not evolved.. in fact, we ceased to evolve a long time ago.. approximately a century ago.

we became so caught up in the discovery of technology and inventions following the use of that technology... that we've forgotten our role as elements within a framework.. we've assumed now that we ARE the framework around which earth functions.. nature is going to catch up with us, n when that happens (the process has begun with global warming), we'l retreat into our primate habitats, rediscover the swinging along the tree branches trait and lose ourselves into this devolution, degeneration we cornered ourselves into.

its a shame since the current crop of human existance is right on the cusp of this situation.. with 1 leg in post-modernization and the other leg planted deep into future crises development and subsequent consequences, we're the unfortunate sons of yesterday's fathers who created doom, which we inherited and like obedient sons carried it forward...