The case of the missing axe

8220;Get me my axe8221;, my father yelled at me one Sunday afternoon. My father wanted this axe to cut off my lovely chikoo tree. This tree was my childhood friend, though eight years older than me. I had grown up with this tree. I had spent half of my life on this tree. I had, so creatively, built a tree-house on it, where I would spend all my vacation afternoons. And he was asking me to find the axe to cut this tree!

Reluctantly, I agreed I had no choice. First we started with my room. Well, finding anything in my room is like finding a needle in a haystack. We looked in my drawer. You never know what you will find in my great drawer. It has practically everything, from spanners to even fire-crackers! In short, it has anything and everything under the sun. Then we opened my cupboard. Now, this was utterly a herculean task, for my cupboard contained tools, hammers, deflated tyres, jacks, and every other piece meant for repairs of machines. It also contained a steam boat, a model biplane again a piece created by me, a skateboard home-made, skates and some other junk. But it was the good and bad. Good because it would save the tree and bad because it meant, I had to face the music for my carelessness. And as if spending the whole Saturday afternoon was not enough, I was given a deadline for 12 o8217;clock the next day. Giving him the axe would mean my lovely tree8217;s death and not giving the axe would mean my death. But thisdidn8217;t worry me much. The next day at 12 o8217;clock, I had not given him the axe. He was very furious. But as they say, time is the greatest healer. His fury subsided.

Well, friends, who said only Environmentalists are concerned about the environment and that only they could do something about it? I am also concerned about it and so I also decided to do something about it. I had purposely hidden the axe. I hid the axe on the very same tree, which my father was going to chop. I had saved my dear old chikoo tree.

I did my bit to save environment. Now friends do your bit. You don8217;t necessarily have to hide axes, you can help mother nature in many ways, however little they may be. So get going!