"Luv is wen ur puppy licks ur face even aftr u left him alone the entire day..."
This is a very common SMS in circulation these days, but every time I get it, it makes me think. Why doesn't the puppy feel resentful towards you for leaving him alone the entire day? Why does he, day after day, so enthusiastically try to stop you from going to the office when he knows that you are going to go anyway? In other words, why does he love you so much and so unconditionally?
Check this video out… I saw it on youtube the other day...
The video is about two young boys who buy a lion cub from Harrods in London. They become bosom friends and share great times together playing in the backyard of a church. But the lion cub (Christian) quickly grows up and becomes too big for the boys to keep. The boys are then left with no alternative but to leave Christian in the jungles of Africa. An year later, the two boys want to visit him but are told that Christian is now the head of his own pride and as such is completely wild and would not remember them. Undaunted, they go anyway. And to see the enthusiasm with which Christian greets them, watch the video:)
Didn’t Christian wonder what caused his two best friends to suddenly abandon him? If yes, then why didn’t he harbour any ill feelings against them? Obviously, his unwavering trust in his two friends must have told him that his friends must have faced some huge dilemma; else they would never have abandoned him.
It might be in the nature of man to forget his parents & family; to satiate his needs and then forget his benefactors. Animals, however, value love over everything else. Show them a bit of love, a bit of care, and they’ll be ready to give their lives for you. While a pet can be your ultimate confidant (yes, he’ll share each and every sorrow & joy of yours), humans, however, have taken to the rat race with such a vengeance that they’ve let everything else (read their success, their career, their goals) supersede their emotions and sentiments—with the effect that these days nobody has the time nor the heart to celebrate someone else’s moment of joy.
Quite simply put, traits of thanklessness and back-stabbing are found only in humans, whereas animals are—to my mind—those creatures which God must have created with his own hands.
So, the next time you wish to abuse someone by calling him a “junglee” or a “jaanwar”, think again, again… and again… Maybe, it’s better to call him a “human” after all :P
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