Tuesday 8 December 2009

An Encounter under the Microscope


I had always wanted a man to man talk with a micro organism, I never knew it would happen this way.
One never gets to handle a microscope once we leave an institution, and this was a chance,
i was adjusting the light reflector and the focusing ring, there was a specimen used by the previous scientist and I saw through the eye piece of the microscope.

The morning gardening and the laundry and the cool spring water bath, took me heart and soul into the picture that i saw in the eye piece.

It was just a few bacteria moving around, after the initial shock of finding myself in that world,i introduced myself to a lone bacteria." I am a Human and i am called with many names".
He said” i am an organism and i have many names too, i change forms, my brethren have been in existence from time in memorial and we will be here all eternity”.

I made a request to have our encounter recorded for the benefit of my memory.

He went on to say that they are basically scavengers and move around to clean up dead and decaying matter, they do not have the capacity to haunt healthy live tissues, nor are they capable of destruction.

He said nature has entrusted this work to them, and they have been misjudged and honored to be the cause of many ailments to their credit, there have been no spokesperson among them to refute it.

He further added" there are a few bullies among us and we know how to keep them in check," "until u humans started to interfere with your chemical weapons for our destruction".

"Be guarded the weapons u use against us are the weapons u will destroy yourself with.
We would mutate to different forms and we are more intelligent than u think".

"If u could go along with us and stay healthy and fit, you would not notice us at all, may be we will give u lots of nutritional value in your food and coloring agents and flavors and many more... "

Now" wake up human" and may god bless us all with our roles of play.

It is mid morning now as i type these words.

3 comments:

Local said...

My regards to the microbe too. This is probably the reason homeopathy is so much better than allopathy for the body. It respects the micro-organism's right to exist and do it's work on diseased tissue.

venkhat said...

It is wonderfull reasoning.
The future generations will realise we have been cruel to these organisms,in word and deed.

shiva said...

This is typical Venkhat to be kind to pathogens also