01/07/2021
"MONSOON CROAKS"
a story by ~
Sreehari RS
3rd sem
Death in the womb.It's smooth.A death without sufferings+free food from placenta.Ever heard about metamorphosis..A painful death of individuality to re-emerge as a new individual.
We've a lily pond.
Guppies,frogs,water striders,leeches,snails....You won't believe that we've a cute reptile visitor,a young rattle snake with crooked milk teeth.I've taken a mould of his teeth on my lower thigh.
It's just before the monsoon,I bought earbuds to sleep among these croaks.Mornings are fun.Frogs lay thousands of eggs at a stretch as a cord.A log stick-My wonder wand. I form eddies with it..Maggie noodles of frog eggs!!Those interlacing jelly fibers are lives.Just Idc.I love killing.
Evening ends with a massacre.Mittu(weird,but it's the nickname of my rattle snake) makes a destructive vortex in the pond.The way he sucks it like noodles,has a professional touch of a noodles taster.To add on more violence,the bomber(my sister) bombs the pond with pebbles..Finally the T-sar bomb,that little devil just lie down on the pond(Pond is barely 1.5 m deep).
Surgeons took post-graduation by clearing 4th standard exams.We seperate small frog from the back of big frog(kids can't understand the purpose of mating).It is called as Siamese Surgery.
Now it's a hard time for Lilies.Tiny tadpoles eat their leaves,stem and roots.Healthy tadpoles make a good meal for Guppies.The ultimate benefactor is my Mittu.But now,things are not that easy.He has to give some serious efforts to catch Guppies(they've light speed).
A little scientist has been conducting many experiments this time.A new finding for the humankind-We can extract a petroleum like product by dehydrating tadpoles.Can we use it as a fuel?..FRIN on this topic.I collect tadpoles in a bottle to study their metamorphosis.My sister always supported my violence.She says philosophically,"Anyhow many of them will die.Let them die for a cause".
This story will repeat.But I haven't seen a monsoon without croaks.They won't fail to fulfill their social commitment-'Natural Mosquito Controllers'.
Metamorphosis-A painful process of self deskinning to revitalize and potentiate their abilities to thrive.A transition state to new responsibilities.They aren't dependant from the birth.Mittu's milk teeth aren't cute for them.They guzzle up their requirements without minding others.They never get fatigued by shaking tails to move.
The tails have to become strong legs to cover more distance.
NET has an acceptance rate of 6%.UPSC has a qualification rate of .01%. NEET only gives admission for .001% aspirants.Before getting disheartened,we never think about rest 99%.SSR,AIIMS JR Anurag-they aren't underachievers.They are labelled as relative underachievers by relatives.Tadpoles chose to live...For them,death is the final experiment.For us,death is the final failure.
(Tip-If you want to use any petroleum products for ur su***de purpose,just give me a miss call..I can give sastha wala Naphta tablets which can easily kill you..Just fill up my tank in return)