Teak trees are seasonal. They know it is a dry season to get rid of useless leaves. There is never a dry season when a teak tree doesn’t shed its leaves. Though a teak tree will remain without leaves, it survives the dry spell.
Shedding leaves is an acceptance of change. A teak tree understands it is normal for such change to happen in its life. It has no fear of the effects of this change. It must dirty the compound, but that doesn’t bother it. It must cause it to look weird and miserable, but that is not a big deal since it has great hope for the next season when it will renew all the shed leaves. What keeps a teak tree to shed leaves every dry season is the hope it has for next season.
It is hard to find such courage in humans. Humans fear change; even normal change. A person will have bad character, but he/she won’t shed it away. A person will have bad habit like drinking or smoking which he/she knows isn’t helping him/her, he/she won’t fight that habit. Human are afraid of looking different. They are afraid to be seen weird and ugly. They don’t focus on the next season. They focus much on the dry season than the wet season. Humans fear the unknown more than anything. Any change for better is normal. A teak tree understands it. I prefer becoming a teak tree!
Ants gather at harvest. Ants are busy gathering food for summer at harvest time. They know food won’t be enough in the next season. They must save enough food for that tough season. This gathering is not left to an individual ant. Every ant must do it. I was shocked when I learned it for the first time that ants gather at harvest for the next season when food will be at scarce.
Ants don’t till the land but they gather enough for the next season. Humans till the land but they don’t gather for the next season. They say tomorrow will take care of itself. They make sure they finish up everything they have today to beg tomorrow. They know very well food won’t be enough in the next season, but they ignore to save some food for it. Saving is a big struggle for almost every person. Saving for tomorrow must be a principle as it is a principle to ants.
Ants too move in lines. They all follow the command of the first ant. If the first ant goes left, they all turn left. If the first ant stops, they all stop. Wherever the first ant goes, they all go. You won’t find ants moving anyhow. Their leadership is very strong. They trust their leaders. They trust their unity. They all live in one house. They don’t fight each other. They leave others behind. A sick ant is always carried. You may not believe it without first confirming it for yourself. I challenge you to research about ants.
Humans, where is your unity? You hate every leader. You criticize every leader. You don’t follow the commands of your leaders. When one of you becomes sick, you don’t care for him/her. When one of you is hungry you don’t provide food for him/her. You are selfish but ants aren’t selfish. Your unity is weak, but ants have strong unity. You hardly stay in peace with one another, but ants, despite being mere creatures without reasoning live and move together. You can’t cut their line. Though you do, they will still go back to it. Do humans find it easy to move together? Their leaders claim they know more. The citizens claim they know more. With that, they never help each other. I am becoming an ant.
A leopard has no mercies when its kids are touched. If you need peace with a leopard, don’t touch its kids. It cares most for its kids. It will never allow anything to kill its kids. There was war in 2013, a mother left her children and rescued herself. A young lady got pregnant last year, you aborted her 7 months old baby and rescued her life. A woman gave birth to a child. Fearing the responsibility, she threw her child in the dustbin. A man and woman are blessed with four children, things are hard, they got scattered and left their children helpless. Citizens are hungry but the parents are enjoying alone. The children are dying every day, but the parents are only celebrating. Humans want to have children but they don’t want the full responsibility of the children. Trying touching leopard’s kids, you will be gone in a moment.
A bird builds its nest up on a tree but it turns its door down. A bird knows rain will come and water must enter the nest if the door is not turned down. A bird also knows that if the door of its nest is turned down, any dangerous animals will easily see its chicks and eat them easily. Where does a bird get this wonderful wisdom? Humans claim they are wise. Aren’t birds wiser than them? Remember every bird is able to build a nest. Can every human build a house? Birds don’t go to school to be able to build their nests. They build their nests without going to any classroom. When do human think they can help skills? When they go to school and have big certificates, isn’t it?
I was a cowboy one time. I could visit birds’ nests from time to time. You will be amazed at how they build their nests. They are more creative than any human. They know the right leaves for the nest. They know the right tree and the right branch. You won’t believe it! Birds’ nests have sitting rooms. You think birds are mere creatures, see how creative they are more than you, human! Do you think you need school first to do anything in life? Will you have skills only when you attend a formal class? Think about the birds. They don’t go to any classroom, but they build their nests.
Dogs don’t bark at their owners. A dog knows who feeds it. It will never bark at him/her or bite him/her. It is a common belief that dogs fight because their owners are insulted. A dog will never fight when its father is insulted. A dog is mere creature, but it knows very well who is important in its life. Any person who shows kindness to a dog isn’t bitten by it. Humans kill who feeds them. A man beat his mother thinking he became a man and a woman should be beaten by any man. A special bodyguard assassinated his boss for money. It was the boss making him to reach that level; but he forgot and focused on the money. Humans are against those who do well. They benefit from the good things that person does but they still hate the person. Imagine a student beating a teacher. Imagine someone killing a doctor. You know you will be sick but you kill the person who is going to treat you tomorrow. I better be a dog.
A hen doesn’t hatch only its eggs. It can hatch any egg. What a hen knows is an egg. Eggs are eggs. You can’t differentiate which eggs are which. Is it the same with humans? Do we understand humans are humans? Don’t we say there are better humans? If a hen isn’t better than humans, why do humans only give food to the people they know? Why do they only know their tribes? Why can’t they understand citizens are citizens? Why should they love others and hate the rest? Why should they distribute the resources to some citizens and others go hungry? Why do others go to better schools and others in poor schools with no facilities? Why some are treated in Juba Teaching Hospital and are others flown to Egypt or India? Some students study abroad and others study in the country, why? I would have been born a chicken.
A cock doesn’t have a watch, but it crows at down. Wake up at 3:00 am; you will hear a cock crowing. It marks time. Almost every bird knows the right time to sleep and the right time to wake up. Birds don’t oversleep. They don’t also waste time outside when it is dark. If you rear chicken, you must have the full story. Chicken become fool when darkness comes.
Do humans work like chicken? Humans have watches, but they don’t keep time. Though they have the nature’s command of day and night, they don’t understand it. They waste time during the day and pretend to be doing something during the night. Every bird is busy during the day and must be resting during the night. Humans, please, understand time. A day is given for work and a night for rest. It is the reason why chickens don’t completely rest during the day. Though chicken are satisfied, they will still be picking things. But when the night comes, chicken will quickly run to their house and stay quite the whole. It is only a cock which will remind them that the day is coming and everyone must prepare for the day. Humans, please, understand the important of time. The day is for work and the night for rest. You become sick because you are against nature.
I am sad because I find other creatures which don’t have the ability to think do better than humans. I am confused whether it is true that humans are the only creatures with logic. Be kind to the nation.