Sparrow's Nest

WRITTEN by SARMAD ASHRAF

Every morning I wake by an irritating sound of something hitting plastic. When I come to the real world considerably I can identify the sound as something playing with my AC and I instantly curse the sparrows and my whole body want to kill them. For the last two months, the back side of my split AC, the hole in the wall from which the internal and external units get connected, has been home to a pair of sparrows. They worked very fast to make a nest in that hole. So, when I wake up, my first plan is to seal that hole by some means and there are two reasons for it. First is the disturbance to my sleep and second is the possible damage to the AC due to the nest and there weird fighting sounds with the AC. The latter is a more concern for me than the former. However, when i get out of my bed, I have a changed feeling and that feeling has stopped me from telling my mother about this nest. I know if I would tell my mother, she will not let the birds stay as she will not want a disturbance in her children's sleep. That different feeling is that the cost an AC is very high monetarily than a nest, but the real cost of that home is much more than a luxury part of my life. Sometimes we ignore such costs. We have become so much self-centred and monetized that we have stopped caring about the real costs and losses. Even to the extent that news of poverty, murder, humiliation and the unrest all over the world don't bother us. Just the like the sparrow's nest, we are ignoring our surrounding, but (May God keep us all safe) if we would not worry about the sparrow's nest, we may be the next sparrow!

Share on Google Plus

About Mian