#145 in Short Story category on 2nd December 2016
This is a short story of a tree which lived in thick green forest and full of happy families. Everything was fine until a viral disease starts spreading in other forests which resulted in new familie...
After few years, a lot of people started migrating from one place to another in order to save themselves from the viral disease that was spreading to thousands of humans like rapid fire. Everyone started worrying about it and were in search of a new forest to live in.
Situation in this forest:
I guess god always liked this forest that's why one day he appeared in our forest and blessed every human that until their death they won't suffer from any disease. If in case they want to cure anyone for any disease then the treatment for all kind of diseases would be found from trees that are in our forest, but to be careful from now on wards as they all need to think carefully and then implement it.
Everyone bowed their head with respect. This word spread with speed of light which resulted in more and more number of people coming to our forest. Then also everyone welcomed them with open hands and started helping them in construction of tree houses and everything.
When the new members in the forest heard about the values of herbs, plants and trees present there and especially about God's words, they started plugging and cutting them off in night and started to sell them in the nearby village for money. As the result of their greed within a year our forest size reduced to 50%. Everyone had a meeting about this and finally they have decided to stop cutting trees and grow as many trees possible. Everyone promised to follow that. As they promised they did follow for few days but after that they were back to square one.
As the months passed there was no progress in the count of trees and size of forest. Results of deforestation were unbearable. But still my family stayed in their tree houses only. But after few years the situation became too worse that it became hard for people to find fruits to live on, so everyone started to leave to some other place.
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"this place is turning into desert, honey. Maybe it's time for us to leave i think. We are not able to give proper food and good environment to our children." said their mom.
"yeah i understand but i can't leave our tree in a situation like this. But there is no other option so i guess we need to find another home"
After listening to that i felt my heart paining a lot. I don't know how I could live without them. But if it makes them safe and have food then i guess it's time to say goodbye for them.
"but we don't want to leave our fairy, daddy. Please let's take it with us. That day you changed position of plants no? Do something like that pleaseeee" they said sobbing continuously.
God! I really love them. But I'm in position who isn't capable of at least telling them goodbye and be safe. From this moment i just started hating myself.
*don't feel bad, i promise to be with you* my brain said which made me happy. I know it can't escape from me but few soothing words sometimes really help a lot.
Within couple of days they left😢😢. That's when i felt something called hollowness and let me tell you that's the worst thing one could feel in the world. I sometimes think that it's only my dream and everything would be fine once i wake up, but i was wrong.
After few years, the effects of deforestation were in peaks, most of the trees died because of increase in temperature and few in lack of oxygen or water.
