Even I Have a Soul …….The Dustbin

I had existence even when the human civilisation started. My presence was widespread, even beyond the man could ever reach. Wherever and whenever the nature and humans have thrown the waste I had gulped that all in no time. The human settlement pervaded and my size was getting shrunken. I was now to pits, river and quarries. I was shrunk against the man’s greed to the limit of small buckets of varying shapes. Although my pervasion had been reduced but I got the identity and now people recognise me by my body. I got a home, a place, an identity with varied body forms & colours.

       I am a better contributor to the cleanliness of the earth more than any other object in the world. I do possess feelings like any other being on this earth. I too have ups and downs in my life as some times I am fed up with sweetest of taste and sometimes I am subjected to harsh and bitter taste of life. I enjoy the moment when even greatest of person looks at me with down eyes and sometimes bow down to fill my tummy. I hate the moment when people insult me by throwing my food from far, out of their laziness. I retaliate to them by bouncing back their items or tumbling down as if I was punched by their throw just to add to their worry to set me upright and feedback the undigested food. The fact that cherishes me the most is that even the most beautiful woman in the world feels envy of me as I was the one who received the first love letter from her lover and not her.

        Although I got the identity but I did not get the respect which the other objects get. I am treated as a filthy object even after contributing to the society. I was elated when I got the beautiful transformation in the form of bamboo made waste bins in the campus of IIM Shillong giving the green message to promote sustainability in life. I wish that the world sustains to give me the better image as one of the contributor towards the society.

Mayur Jain 

PGP11