Ma tujhe pranam (Mom we salute thy)

Past 7 days a pigeon is warming her eggs outside our window. Earlier too we had generations of pigeons make our balcony as their home and we suffered a lot because of their rap music. 

This time the moment I saw the pigeon laying her egg, I told my ma that this time no consideration we will throw the eggs away the moment this pigeon leaves. My Ma being the more softy amongst the two grudgingly agreed. 

But it has been seven days and this pigeon has not left her eggs. I was so intrigued by this ladies dedication I googled online to find out more and what Mr Google told me is that the eggs require 14 days to hatch and the male and female pigeon do it interchangeably giving the impression that the same pigeon is sitting on the eggs.

I dont know for a fact as at night none of us have inspected the pigeon. We did offer her food and water which she refused to have from us, albet not too politely I will add!

But her dedication has obviously diluted our resolve or rather my resolve to throw the eggs.So we are doomed to atleast one more generation of crank rap. 

My ma told me that the baby pigeon called squabs wont recognize their parents when they grow up. I tried asking Mr Google. yet awaiting the answer. 

Wish I shared the mother pigeon's dedication ! Only one in my family who has that kind of dedication is my brother. Every night, night after night he would toil during his architecture days to complete his assignment and start all over again without a grunt when his heartless teachers would scrap his work not because it was not technically correct but it was not as per their whims and fancy a La "three idiots style" story. But what sets him apart and loads ahead of me is his dedication. 

I guess I am more of the cuckoo bird, wont explain why :P

A thought that time and again strikes me and ma is whether Dexter misses his ma or remembers her. 

To make our life complete, he has left his family and adopted us and has adapted to our life. I hope we are keeping him well so that in spirits we can always tell his parents, hey we did not as good as you could but maybe the next best for him. 

I guess these over the top emotions might be too much for non pet lovers to understand and I guess we should not have such expectations too as some things can be felt only by actual experience. 

I really enjoy taking lessons and inspiration from other species as mankind as a species has seem to make me more weary, biased and too predictable. 

I wonder what opinion do these other species have about us and do they too laugh at our antics coz I doubt we can inspire or teach them much to improve their lives.