SURVIVAL STREET STYLE

Survival Street Style

I happened to pass through a side street and what I witnessed caught my attention. It was a bloody duel between a group of canines. The fight resembled a gang war but it had a manic ferocity, which was a bit surprising. Normally these docile looking creatures could turn into raging madness was surprising. So I decided to wait and watch. It turned out that the dogs were squabbling over a paper bag that contained some food items.

We fail to notice but dogs like humans fight over food and land. What is added to their behaviour is the,’ fight or finish’ attitude. For these street dogs the foremost lesson life teaches is ‘find food’ ,‘safety’ and ‘a place to sleep’ are ensuing. Hunger breeds in them an iron resolve to fight to the last morsel. It is not a question of standing but of,’ live today and fight tomorrow’.

I could see in their eyes that glint of desperation and want which was holding them to the ground. From the day a street dog is born its days of learning the steps to survival begins. The way is stiffer for those who are born in the winter and the rainy months.

It’s the law of the wild which works everywhere for them. The strong kills the weak, growing in this environment breeds in them that if you win you shall have food for today and if you die it will be eternal peace.

But the craving for eternal peace is overlooked by most of them because of their life teaching of,’ to never give it up.’ So the day dawns for them with a new fight and dusk brings the fear of the strong but the urge to give life one more try is so intense that it precedes everything.Nature if we view it from this angle would sound like the drums of doomsday.
But giving it an indepth analysis we will find the motherly warmth nature bestows on its children.

If the street dog does not undergo the phases of survival how will it live to tell the tale to its children who shall follow the same? Nature teaches them to live and if they die then it means that they were not fit to live and so it was better they perished or else how are they expected to live and endure.

Have we as humans ever given the survival course of nature a thought? Introspection would give us answers, which we wish to seek from nature like calamities, famines and the like. We will come to love nature’s phases and see in them the motherly warm and the fatherly assurance.