I keep looking out to observe the way rose flowers behave during the recent spell of heavy rain. All of them as in the above photo started with well formed buds looking healthy and elegant.
The rose flowers in the above photographs seemed to remain bright, colourful and upright.
The flowers in the photos below had a different appearance. The rain spell seemed to have made them different in appearance, drooping and drenched!
This story of rose flowers in our garden, most of them looking well enough and some looking weary made me think about life of people in our society.
The contrast is evident. Some live opulently, some overcoming and some under the burden of living!
Is not most of what we encounter in our communities associated with irresponsible or insensitive human behaviour!
For about twenty years, the global slogan in the environmental domain was to reduce carbon emissions and resort to use of renewable energy. The current president of the United States of America opposed this and pulled out of the Paris consortium of countries who committed to reduce pollution. He seems to forcibly explore and drill fossil oil !
The warning from public health watchers and experts in non-communicable diseases go unnoticed!
Would hundreds die in Gaza if the Israeli government was mindful of the Palestinians? The children and adults dying of starvation is an imposed cruelty upon people by those who stopped feeling for those who are hurting!
The pictures above tell that there is resilience sufficient enough to withstand hardships.
But just as some flowers suffer beyond what they can endure, so it is with humans when faced with adversities in life!
The well to do can be more mindful of those who suffer!
They are the Enablers !
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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