There are abundant resources out there for us to explore, to experiment, to risk, to taste and finally to take a plunge.

But we are still using only the fewest of these resources…and yet we are blaming on the irrelevant, temporary and unnecessary things.

The universe has abundant resources out of which we are using the bare minimum.

I think it’s high time that we take notice of this disease and cure it.

Before shouting “I don’t have enough resources” lets question ourselves “what on earth is that we lack” or “what’s stopping us from reaching our dreams”

All this boils down to one thing: We love blaming rather than doing.

I think we are mentally far more lazy than we seem to be.

We are lazy to find resources which exist all around us.

Even when we find them we are lazy to use them.

Forget the resources, we are damn lazy to tackle even our own laziness.

Before these things cloud our dreams…

Lets step into our very own brain and trash out all the clutter and lets ponder about all the good things ‘present’ around us…

Hence I say youth: they are not useless, they are using less.

But Silence, our inner choice

Difficulties, the god’s noise

But action, our wiser choice

Now I am a successful actor winning the hearts of millions around the world. But still I feel this gap. I want to win that globally renowned prestigious award for the role I played recently.

This role I enacted is challenging and quite distinct. Although the competition is very high as I compete with the stalwarts of the cinema, I have a wee bit of confidence somewhere in the corner of my heart that I will win this apex award this time. Coincidentally, it was my 40th birthday.

I along with my always-supportive wife stepped into the award ceremony passing through fanatic claps and the lightning media. There is a huge gathering consisting the artistes, audience, film fraternity etc. We sat in the second row.

All are watching the performances of the comedians and the skits being played. I am very uncomfortable because all my focus is on the most coveted award – The Best Actor. Meanwhile, many awards were announced intermittently to various other categories.

At last, my category is on its way. They have showed the nominations for the category. The rest of the nominees are also promising enough for this global award. The host invited the most celebrated director to announce the winner of the best actor category. The Director is opening the cover. I crossed my fingers, my feet were trembling, my palms sweating. I closed my eyes. I put my hand into my pocket to take my dog-eared victory speech paper. He said “and the winner is……”

I didn’t hear my name. I missed the award this time too. I sneakily moved back my victory speech paper into the pocket. By this time it has become wet by my sweaty hand.

I am speechless. I can’t figure out where I went wrong. Reluctantly, I clapped for the winner. My wife hugged me to console.

We went home at night. I drank too much. I didn’t talk to anyone. I requested everyone to leave me alone for sometime. Now I am with myself in my bed room. I sat in the chair and and read my victory speech paper to myself. While I am reading that I went on to a nostalgic journey into my past struggling days. I recollected how I used to visit all the directors pleading them even for a small role. I got vexed with this award mania that hit me.I just rolled the paper and threw it into the dustbin.

Every island has its own culture. Each islander has his own skill set to survive in their conditions. They learned their skills over years of trial and error.

The people in the island have learned the craft and skill needed to make a boat with facilities to travel long distances to find new colonies to extend their clan. They make the boats with the tree trunks and tie them with threads prepared by coconut husk.

Some observed the birds traveling across their islands and followed them to find a new island.

Some identify an approaching island by their effect on the ripples on the surface of the sea. Tall islands leave a trail of clouds like a chimney from a factory. So they can be detected even before reaching it. With such observational skills and techniques Polynesians colonized island after island.

But there is a flip-side to this story.

Many animals have become extinct because of the humanization of the islands. People when they colonized an island, they introduced their pets (cats etc) and also some new animals to the island. These animals hunted the defense-less and flight-less birds and eventually caused their extinction.

One of the greatest contributions of islands is the theory of evolution. Charles Darwin’s legendary journey to the Galapagos islands has provided almost all the evidence for his theory. He collected numerous samples from these islands to prove his theory. On close examination he understood that the tortoises living on each Galapagos island have developed unique physical characteristics, features and food habits based on the conditions present in their respective islands.

Every island tortoise is different from its neighboring island. Each has developed its own uniqueness and survived and others which were unable to adapt collapsed without a trace. For example one tortoise has developed a longer neck because its food is available not on the ground but on the small plants which can be reached only when it stretches its neck. Hence this resulted in their change –the long neck.

I am concluding this island series but if there is an interesting insight (about an island) worth a post then sure I will share it with you in the future.

Hope you enjoyed your stay in the island.