It has been some time now since I have been trying to help animals in the best possible way I can think of. Each path I decide to take up gives me a ton of hurdles and thanks to my habit of over analysing things and trying to identify all possible failure modes, I have for quite some time now been stalling. It might appear to those observing me that there is very little movement in and around me, even the air might feel static around me. But that is not the case. There is this huge inner conflict which tells you to do something on the one hand and shows you how it is going to not last long or even fail on the other hand. Such is the power of the mind.
So, after analysing the situation for a while, I have come to the conclusion that the solution is not an easy thing to implement.
All those animals being stoned and thrown out of houses, all those being abandoned, all those eating plastic out of cans..if anything has to be done for these poor things who love so unassumingly, it has to be the way the love is received which has to be changed.
My trip all over the South taught me that the dog and the cat are social animals, just like man. They live where man lives.They will never be found in a place where you do not see human beings.
The wild has been taken over by man as well. His reach into the jungles that I ve been to clearly showed me his arrogance. He had started believing that every creation is made for his own use. The forests were not viewed as a habitat, but as a place where a new company could stand or a new business could flourish. The village in Masinagudi with its little guesthouses all over was an example of this. There were people from outside who came to the village and wanted to buy land and build guesthouses and restaurants all over so that they could convert the land into a tourist destination.
But the good thing that I saw here was that, people realised that they were eating into the natural habitat of the animals and the villagers did not want that. They kept that in mind and protested against the ones who came in to destroy the forest ensuring that Masinagudi is still known as a wildlife sanctuary and not a tourist destination.
In Mumbai, the past few months, I ve met a lot of animal lovers. They pick up the young ones from the street, help the injured ones, try to give them homes, fight with the world because the rest of the world does not see the meaning or importance of what they are doing. I admire these people for the courage they show by doing exactly what the society tells them not to do. The courage to love when they are told to turn a blind eye. Pure is the only way I can describe many of the people I ve met.
Back to my battle. Most of these people I met hated human beings in general and the majority of them reacted in the exact way that they felt. Society did and does not understand what these people are doing. They think it is unnecessary and a burden in life. And then of course the standard argument, there are so many people who need help..why are you helping the animals. I have never heard a person who is actually helping human beings pose that question thankfully.
What I have been wanting to say from the beginning of this is that people need to change and human beings have to realise their responsibility towards other creations as well. I have always believed in the laws of thermodynamics which at some level state that energy can neither be created nor be destroyed. It can only be converted from one form to the other. The total amount of energy in the universe always remains constant.
This applies to this situation if you think of it as Good energy and bad energy...the goodness in the world and the bad things in the world.
There has to be a balance and there is. You cannot create good or bad. You can only convert the good into the bad or the bad into the good.
So I ve taken it upon myself to convert the bad..or what I perceive as bad to be converted into good.
For this..the only way I see is to set the minds of people straight. This is only possible if I work with them and not against them. Make people aware that they have a lot of good in them and give them a chance to show this to the world.
We can help the animals only when everybody decides to. Help people help themselves...find the good in them..bring people together..
Teach them to love, make a place for animals in their heart..make animals socially acceptable..
and once people accept animals into their lives, they have no choice but to love them. You have to love what you live with.
My first step in this direction is PAL ~ Pet Owners and Animal Lovers.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?m2w#!/home.php?sk=group_135998789782508¬if_t=group_activity
It is not a movement for animals, it is a movement for people..
To help people save themselves from what they ve become!
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