Dawood Ibrahim
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IT was at the famous Maharaja’s zoo at Mysore yesterday I saw this rather strange sight: There was a monkey in a cage, swinging away to glory, from artificial trees that had branches for it to play around.
There were bananas strewn around, and it would pick one up, eat a bit, then swing up to the roof of the huge cage, and there it would stretch out it’s paw, and what a strange sight it was, a monkey on the outside would hold it awhile and then both would rush off to do their own thing, one jumping back onto it’s artificial playthings and the other swinging from real tree to real tree, screeching and yelling while the one in the cage ate its banana silently.
Monkey in, monkey out! The monkey inside, had all it wanted, except freedom. It could jump from fiberglass tree to cage top, grab a banana, eat half of it, throw it away, all within the confines of its cage.
The monkey outside screeching and wild and happy, had no food served to it, had to search for every scrap to fill its belly, but had the entire world to loaf around. I saw monkey out pick up something some tourist had thrown, some piece of meat. It chewed on it then spat it out. It hadn’t liked the taste, I guess, so spat it out by choice, and not because the zoo keeper had proclaimed monkeys eat only bananas.
The monkey out was lean and skinny, but there was an excited sparkle in his eyes, as he jumped form branch to branch on real trees.
The excitement was of hope, of finding food maybe, of challenges to be faced through the day, and the joy of winning, along with the freedom it had. Monkey inside’s eyes were dull and expressionless!
It swung at full speed from one end of huge cage to other then stared listlessly at the world outside. I saw it look at the bananas which were plentiful. I knew it had been caught using the banana trick monkey catchers use, of placing a banana inside a box with a small opening.
The monkey put its paw in, grasped banana and didn’t let go. The monkey catcher just carried the box back and emptied the stupid creature into a cage.
How like many of us; promised progress and prosperity, but caged for life, while monkey out chooses what it wants, even tastes the meat, then decides to eat or not to eat, not because Mr Zookeeper decided what it has to do. How easily we get fooled like Monkey In..!
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There were bananas strewn around, and it would pick one up, eat a bit, then swing up to the roof of the huge cage, and there it would stretch out it’s paw, and what a strange sight it was, a monkey on the outside would hold it awhile and then both would rush off to do their own thing, one jumping back onto it’s artificial playthings and the other swinging from real tree to real tree, screeching and yelling while the one in the cage ate its banana silently.
Monkey in, monkey out! The monkey inside, had all it wanted, except freedom. It could jump from fiberglass tree to cage top, grab a banana, eat half of it, throw it away, all within the confines of its cage.
The monkey outside screeching and wild and happy, had no food served to it, had to search for every scrap to fill its belly, but had the entire world to loaf around. I saw monkey out pick up something some tourist had thrown, some piece of meat. It chewed on it then spat it out. It hadn’t liked the taste, I guess, so spat it out by choice, and not because the zoo keeper had proclaimed monkeys eat only bananas.
The monkey out was lean and skinny, but there was an excited sparkle in his eyes, as he jumped form branch to branch on real trees.
The excitement was of hope, of finding food maybe, of challenges to be faced through the day, and the joy of winning, along with the freedom it had. Monkey inside’s eyes were dull and expressionless!
It swung at full speed from one end of huge cage to other then stared listlessly at the world outside. I saw it look at the bananas which were plentiful. I knew it had been caught using the banana trick monkey catchers use, of placing a banana inside a box with a small opening.
The monkey put its paw in, grasped banana and didn’t let go. The monkey catcher just carried the box back and emptied the stupid creature into a cage.
How like many of us; promised progress and prosperity, but caged for life, while monkey out chooses what it wants, even tastes the meat, then decides to eat or not to eat, not because Mr Zookeeper decided what it has to do. How easily we get fooled like Monkey In..!
—Email: bobsbanter@gmail.com
http://pakobserver.net/monkey-in-monkey-out/
@SherDil @Mentee @Jugger @MystryMan @XenoEnsi-14
