Few silly harmless superstitions are fun sometimes. I also have a few superstitions like seeing one myna is for sorrow, two is for joy, three is for letter and four is for boy! And crossing your fingers when you see a mail-van and opening them once you see a crow brings good luck! And many more…Its now that I realise that we depend so much on birds for our good-luck!
There is a post-office not very far from my college so I see a lot of mail-vans on my way. And today I noticed that finding a crow has become simpler than it was some years ago.
I tried to find out the reason and got that its one of the many consequences of 'global warming'. Because of the rising temperatures, it has become difficult for birds like sparrows to survive. That’s the reason we see so few sparrows nowadays. Birds like pigeons and crows can survive even in hotter climates and that's why they are growing unaffected by this.
And its after I read this that I noticed that till a few years ago I heard so many sparrows singing from the bushes and climbers near my room’s window but now I hear so less of it. I remember it was so soothing to get up from sleep everyday hearing their sweet voice first thing in the morning. It was like they have clubbed with my father to wake me up. Even my father didn’t mind my tantrums for 5 min of extra sleep because he liked the songs of these sparrows and, thus, didn’t mind coming to my room a few extra times to wake me up!!!
Neither me, nor my father have changed but both of us will always miss those sparrows.