After what I saw yesterday I’ve begun to question my-self,”
are we really humans”?
A few kilometers away from my house there’s a service road
alongside the national highway. There is a ‘tapri’ on this service road.
Yesterday in the evening, at around 7:30 or 8:00 my friends Jeet, Adwait and I
went there to have tea.
Just while we were enjoying our hot cup of tea, we saw a
couple of cute puppies (some 1 to 2 months old) on the service road. A car came
from highway on the service road. The puppies were obstructing it's way. The man
blew his horn and all the puppies except for one fled. The man blew his horn
again but this puppy didn’t move. A thought came to my mind that I should go
and pick up the puppy and get him off the road. Before I got up, the man drove
his car over this innocent puppy. Adwait and I saw this and we ran towards the dog, watching
us Jeet followed. When we got there we found out the man had drove the car over
the puppy’s head. I just can’t describe how badly hurt the puppy was. Jeet
insisted we should take the puppy to a veterinary hospital, but there was no
use; he was already dead. There was
nothing we could do. We decided to bury him rightfully. So we dug a small pit
on a barren ground near the service road and buried him there. We stayed near
his burial site for a while, prayed the god to rest his soul in peace and
returned to the ‘tapri’. What we saw next left us with no words; the puppies
had returned with their mother and were searching for the dead puppy. Watching
this, all 3 of us were blown away. I
don’t know how the person will be able to sleep at night after performing such
heinous crime. To be truthful, I myself had a sleepless night yesterday. I just
couldn’t stop thinking about the puppy and his mother.
Well might be the man in the car had a “bad day” or his
“dear wife” was waiting for him, but there was no job on earth, that he
possibly had to perform, that was more important than the life of that poor
creature. So, what was the rush for?
Just because those innocuous creatures can’t speak, doesn’t
mean we will bully them or KILL them! This is a murder and I am of opinion that
the man should be punished for this crime. My biggest regret is that this man
will never have to pay for what he did.
