My Dark School Of Thoughts

    The umbrella said to me, I am singularly the most useful domestic item in this country, then it stressed its point by showing me what a good job he was doing protecting an immaculately dressed woman from the rain, then it goes ahead to show me other people wielding an umbrella in the rain too. With this proof staring at me in the face I was left with no choice but to concur because in the rainy season the umbrella is not just an option for the common man but the only option, so I said, umbrellas are the singularly the most underrated common man item because it surely protects the common man from the rain and stormy weather, there and then my respect for it increased dramatically. After reaching this conclusion I turned around to share my reasoning with my friends when an objection was raised, so I look around and saw a woman sweeping her house with a broom, and I realized that the objection came from the broom.

  The broom’s argument was these: the umbrellas were just “Protectors of Desperate People” while they the brooms were “Active Cleaners”, it further stressed its point by claiming to be a very important item in not just the common man’s life but also in the rich. The broom claims that not only is it a better household item as opposed to the umbrella but also the most important because it not only keeps the common man’s house clean but also the rich too, it also claim’s that while the umbrella is seasonal, it works in the rain and in the sun. The broom goes ahead to lament on the inequities of this life by saying that while it does all the dirty and hard work every day they are still never appreciated and they are never taken care of like the umbrellas. While I sat and pondered this, the umbrella speaks up in its defense by saying that even if it was a seasonal item the broom can never offer the kind of protection it gives people in the rain and moreover it also protects some people in the sun too, it went ahead in his defense by saying it is of a stronger material than the broom and if the broom doubts it should try staying in the rain for hours and see if it could survive it.

   Their hullabaloo went on and on, each trying to claim superiority over the other, all these while their supposed users were suffering the brunt of the argument, each of their item bickering at the other and thereby failing to perform their responsibilities, while rain was beating the immaculately dressed woman, the broom was pulling off from the bunch and thereby making the woman’s sweeping harder. I just looked at both of the items and shook my head, in as much as they were important in their own respect they weren’t even the best items for the job either. There are countries where the vacuum cleaners replace the brooms and do a more efficient job and where cars isn’t a luxury for only the rich, and here I am listening to this two archaic items yakking themselves out about being superior, they fail to realize that if conditions and circumstance were different they wouldn’t have been an option, they fail to realize that there is only a limit to what a man can take and when his patience wanes it would lash out at them and replace them, and I also realized that it is man that has given them this over bloated sense of importance because when a broom or umbrella start to become in-efficient he will cast them away and replace them with another broom and umbrella, the same kind that failed initially so there is never progress. They don’t know all these and even if they have been told they would never listen, instead of the broom and the umbrella to acknowledge and respect each other, do their respective duties to the best of their abilities and even help themselves, they are going around yakking. Though it seems inconceivable that a broom and an umbrella would help each other talk less of work together, but it’s possible as long as there is determination. One thing is certain, it would get to a time when we would be replacing our brooms and umbrella’s with efficient and better tools like the vacuum cleaners and automobiles, when it would happen I don’t know, how long it would take I also don’t know but I know one thing and it is that their time is very very near and their era of unnecessary bickering and rigmarole would be brought to an end.