 CIVILIZED
DESTROYER
We're
civilized, we're social, we're busy with our school things, projects,
social activities and friends. You have a cell phone next to your ear,
you're in a car...
As
always, you're in a hurry to go somewhere else, and while you're
planning what you're going to do next, suddenly a cat jumps in front of
your car, and it's too late to stop. In the middle of the night and the
middle of the campus, you've hit a cat. Who can help you? You have to do
something, knowing that the cat is alive and lying there on the ground
expecting help from you. You feel a responsibility to save its life. But
who can you get help from? After calling the Health Center and not
getting any assistance, we went to the main entrance and asked the
officers for help. They made some calls, but got no useful response. We
called every place possible, from a hospital to the municipality. If it
were a human being, there would be something you could do (of course, if
you were sensitive enough).
In the end, the officers were the only ones who helped us. We went back
to place where the cat was lying. But when we got there, we couldn't
find it, and after searching for two hours, we had to give up.
All the
chaos my friend and I experienced that night made me realize that we've
made the world smaller, and have to learn to survive in harmony with
other animals. Let's forget about the aliens that live on other planets--here
on earth, we have a huge world full of beauty. First, we destroyed
nature, and now we're destroying other creatures. We're losing the sense
of being human, we've lost our feelings.
Just
take a second and think about some other things happening around us.
Getting a lovely fur isn't a good reason to kill an animal; it's not his
fault he has that beautiful fur. It's not right to destroy the trees in
a forest, which give us oxygen to breathe, in order to manufacture paper
towels. It's not right to have emergency services only for human beings.
It's the human beings and their car that hit a cat. Is the world too
small for animals and people to coexist with each other? Is it the cat
that should not be walking there, or the human being that should not be
driving a car there?
It might
be wrong to wonder about the other planets and the other creatures that
may be living there. Do we want to explore space to satisfy our
curiosity, or to destroy more things and more places as we use them for
our own advantage? Maybe there are many heaven-like places in the galaxy.
I hope we never discover them.
Gülay Acar (COMD/III)
howtoreachgulay@yahoo.com
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