Beach Cleaning: Necessity or Fad
The conviction and commitment of Sasank reluctantly motivated other friends to lend their hand in beach cleaning drive, for the cause of mother earth, converting their mindset from celebration to care provisioning for the beach.
“Guys! Do you know, how far the grains of sands tread on to reach ashore!”- Sasank asked in an uplifted and thrilled voice. Energy and strength of his utterance broke silence prevailing inside the running motor vehicle, which was moving towards the direction of pre-decided beach destination, awakening few of his dozing friends.
The college mates were in an excursion mood going to the beach site in chilling winter to celebrate the season and welcome a new year.
Awoken by the enthusiastic voice, Raunak looked around and enquired from the driver about their travel time. Then in response to the excited expression of Sasank, he said in a tepid lukewarm voice, “My friend! This is an elementary level question, known to everybody since their childhood!
It is the rock particles wandering a long distance with the river course that get converted into sand grains!”
After delivering answer in a sluggish way, blunted voice of Raunak started changing into mocking form. “Were you absent on that day in the elementary school, when teacher was explaining about soil types?”, asked Raunak holding a teasing tonality in his comments.
Electrified, ecstatic voice of Sasank probably broke the slumber environment of the journey, arousing kidding temperament within the clique.
Arun with partially raising one side of his lips, winking eyes with satirizing accent said, “Oh dear! This insect lover must have been on a trip to locate some new bug in the neighboring colony for which he missed that class of geography teacher. After so many years, the question emerged in his mind and he is searching answers now.”
It sparked a softer amusement inside the moving vehicle.
Ignoring the teasing temperament of his friends, Sasank said, “Arun! Do you know the sands are a part of an ecosystem, that provide shelter to a number of creatures?” Presumably the answer and pitch of voice conform the prefix attached to his name by Arun, generated a grin laughter in unison.
With concealed smile, Arun remarked “I knew that very well, otherwise you would not have been so excited while uttering the word sands!”
“True! My dear friend, the compact sand is the nesting ground of whole array of sea turtle, a key species of maintaining balance in marine ecology. Along with that the sand dunes are an ecosystem within itself, hosting number of salt tolerant plant species with shallow roots like beach grass.
It provides shelter to animal species like crabs and many reptiles.” Sasank would have continued for long, had the vehicle not stopped and driver not declared about the arrival of the destination.
Everybody wanted to get out of that four-wheeler jumbo machine to grasp a smell of fresh air. As the group of friends jumped out of the motor vehicle, the olfactory system in their nasal cavity, recognized the overwhelming smell of smoky scent in the area. It was a stark contrast to their imagination.
As they looked around, herd of people segregated into small groups but essentially doing the same thing of merrymaking in that beach by picnicking, caught their vision.
It seemed cooking, snacking and drinking had become the temporary ritual of the place and everybody was busy in these activities.
The noise of the place at that time was deafening, as most of those groups were using high decibel music system. And the litter was phenomenal with multiple trash items spreading throughout the area.
Reality of that place was disappointing for the new arrival team because they couldn’t find any place to spread out their mat, but the matter of discontentment was scale of the beach pollution. It generated a feeling of dismay within Sasank as he could feel the pain of the small beach creatures due to the pollution.
He imagined how these plastic wrappers, beverage cane, plastic and glass bottles along with other nuance trash items would have been intervening with their survival and nourishment. Carried by the emotion of empathy for the small creatures, Sasank started lifting the spread-out scrap and junk materials from the beach floor.
“What are you doing? We are here for partaking and celebrating the end of the year and welcoming new year with new enthusiasm, not to pick up others trash!”
“Yes, my dear! You are absolutely right. But our enjoyment shouldn’t be in confrontation with any other animals’ survival. In this beach, the natives of this place shouldn’t be disturbed by our arrival. It is a simple rule of nature, that we should be respectful to other’s kingdom, which is the only way for the game of sustenance on this earth! Otherwise, Nature will play its own game leading to vanishment of human’s existence from earth.”
Taking a pause and looking at the crowd of individuals, Sasank added in a heavy heart, “I don’t think we will have any possibility of our picnic, but we can contribute by cleaning the beach, a remarkable way to begin our new year with a positive resolution.”
The conviction and commitment of Sasank reluctantly motivated other friends to lend their hand in beach cleaning drive, for the cause of mother earth, converting their mindset from celebration to care provisioning for the beach.
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