The Future of the Present

By Malini Venkataraman

It was a sunny Sunday noon. Pinky and Chotu were getting bored. They had watched
enough of television and had finished their homeworks too. Just then chotu
remembered about his remote-control car bought years ago. He quickly ran to the
storeroom and looked for his car.

Pinky also followed him and joined in the search. As they were looking for the car,
Pinky found a dusty and rusty old thing which resembled like the remote of Chotu's
car. "Chotu!, look what I found" "Doesn't this look like my car's remot e? But wait,
this looks strange with these tiny buttons. " "Wait Chotu!, don't do anything, let's
take it to dad and show him" "I wonder what happens if I press this"..said Chotu,
touching the button inquisitively. "Don't !!!!! shouted Pinky warily. Too la te!

Chotu jabbed the button with his finger. Then, they both felt dizzy! The only thing
they saw now was black, green, and black, green. Their head swirled and they
fainted instantly and woke up only when sharp piercing rays of sun hit their eyes.
Rubbing their eyes, they were surprised to look at their surroundings which were
very new to them. No wonder that they were in a completely new place! Hmm.."what
place is this Pinky ?. Chotu turned curiously questioning and w..hat is this?" They
saw a big steel castle with strange machines. And there stood the two of them, in
front of the massive green, blue and red doors. They didn't know which door to
enter. They chose the blue door. The door opened up to a vast deserted land. The
place was so empty. No sign of people, it was all deserted, trees were hardly visible.
There was only some tall thorny bushes. "How terrible! told Pinky "there's no
greenery at all here! I wonder what place is this and where we have come?" and
when she turned her head, she could see a huge shadow cast over them . " A.a..a
M..O..N...N.S.S..T..T.ER.R!! stammered Chotu. Both froze in terror started to run !.
The monster chased them like anything in whatever direction they went. Both of
them became so tired that they couldn't move any furth er. Panting and breathing fast,
they stood in front of the monster helpless. It was made of junk, electronic wastes
and all sorts of garbages and it stinked "YUCK! "Please don't do us anything",
begged Pinky. "Ha..Ha..Ha laughed the monster loudly, I am th e GARBAGE
monster! And I was created by you the humans. You dumped all wastes in the earth,
polluted its beauty, threw electronic wastes, cut down trees and created your own
concrete jungles.

And Here I am, as the result of all your behaviors and habits. "Yes!, we are ashamed
of our behavior. And now we realize the effect of our actions and irresponsibility of
saving the earth. said Chotu "Please leave us and let us go. We will see to that
hereafter we will take care of the environment we live. Said Pinky "That is not
enough!, How do I believe you selfish humans!. " "Please believe us; we won't
exploit our nature anymore. We have seen the effect of all our human activities. We
have seen bad state of the earth in future both begged in chorus As both of them
were confessing to the monster, a strong air blew and pulled them both to their
room. Crushing their eyes, Chotu and Pinky realized that they had actually travelled
ahead of time and saw the state of earth if we do not protect our environment from
pollution and dumping wastes. "phewwww! said Chotu wiping his sweat and coming
back to reality. "Wasn't that very scary Chotu? "Of course!. We should do something
on our part to save our earth. "Idea! Why don't we take a serious new year resolution
to help protect our enviromnet? "That's great Pinky" They both quickly sat with a
pen and paper and started writing their resolution. Stood in front of their favourite
Ganesha and read loudly their resolution "We, Pinky and Chotu hereby take
resolution from this moment to help save our earth by;

1. Not use plastic carry bags

2. We will not litter our surroundings
3. We will plant tress and help make our surroundings greener and cleaner
4. We will not waste water and try to save it
5. We will use only eco friendly goods
6. We will insist our friends and relatives to follow these methods to save our earth
and make it cleaner and greener.

They ran to their friends to tell about their experience and spread their wonderful
New Year resolution