Part 17: Harsh Reality
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Dear Diary
After a long gap, I am writing in my diary, everything was going on in my life as usual, nothing much to write about, just regular stuff, but today I saw something which has disturbed me a lot, and since then I am thinking about it. Do we animals have no place in this world? If humans are ruling this world, then where is ‘Raj Dharma’, their responsibility is only to protect human lives or every life on this planet?
In the past few months, my life was like a stable boat sailing in a calm sea. I go for regular walks, play with my friend Lucky, and I have made another friend ‘Thunder’ who is of the same breed as mine, Momma says he is my ‘Jaat Bhai’ and I always object to her, as he is not Bhai but a friend. I like playing with him, he waits for me at the gate of his house whenever I go on my walk.
I also have now made peace with the other dogs in my locality, the ‘Street dogs. They now understand that I am going to stay, hence no longer bark at me. Some of them even talk to me, will come to meet me also.
A few days back I was on my regular morning walk with Momma, as always busy sniffing and wandering, and then I saw some flesh lying on one side of the road. I was petrified as the smell was very familiar. I went closer and saw the dead body of one of my street friends, it was in two parts, lying on one side of the road. Momma saw me sniffing the body, and pulled me aside, ‘Shibi, come back!’
I looked at her with almost tears in my eyes, she understood, and said, ‘Seems the dog was hit by a speeding vehicle, and someone must have thrown the body here.’
I was still in shock.
She softly patted me and said, ‘Harsh reality of life, road accidents happen with humans too, let us leave!’
I nodded and started walking behind her.
I think she too was disturbed after seeing the body but like a caring mother, she did not want me to get a thing of that.
After coming home, I could not eat for a day, and kept thinking about the two parts of the body of a Dog! Do they throw human bodies also like that?
Harsh Reality, Indeed!
Shibi, the Beagle