Oh Honey!!
Ahmed said no when I asked him for dinner. Inquiring a bit, I got to know that he was very upset.
“How can she do that”, he spoke suddenly.
I did not have to ask him further; the blank face of mine prompted him to talk, I guess.
“ She killed her yaar! How can she do that”. He waited to collect back his emotions and spoke back with some effort – “That was not at all required”. He sighed and I could say he has vented it all out.
“She killed the Honey-Bee yaar”, he almost whispered with his sentiment-drenched words.
He finally declared that he does not want to have dinner and my other friend and I left him to have his space and find his peace after this heart-dropping incident.
Truly speaking this incident touched me deep. I knew within it can only be a ‘male’ who can come down to commensurate to the level of insect-emotions; and moreover this has never happened before. It has been an utterly disappointment from the ‘female’ side. They are considered the epitome of care and love (at least Indian females are) but they seem to undervalue the entire concept. I mean life is a life, may it be of a human or a bee. In fact I must say that every honey-bee-family is much larger than any human family that has ever existed and hence needs even more respect.
So I salute Ahmed for advocating for a cause that has been neglected by everyone. We would certainly be missing its humming and its playing on the tube-light of our rooms. It makes my heart sink with the grief that the flowers shall now have to wait forever for it to come and sip its nectar.
Long live the honey-bee in the hearts of people.
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