April Fool Banaya

I dread 1 April, for every year on this day I live under the fear that someone somewhere may discover my trick through which I have been successfully fooling billions of people across the world. However, not even one intelligent soul has emerged in so many years to understand what a fool I have been making of the entire humanity.

Dull, barrena and empty thats what I am today. I am questioning my own existence nowadays and pondering that why has my beauty withered , why is my face looking pale. I no longer have my charming exuberance. The doctor says that I am suffering from dehydration. I consider myself highly unfortunate that I am unable to support even my children who can merely be mute spectators to the entire catastrophe. I wish I could once again take you in my arms and give you all the love I have my dear son. I am so sorry but I have been rendered helpless.

However, I must tell you all that I am not sitting silent. I am busy fooling the entire humanity into destruction. As they continue to trouble me and my beautiful children, I am also trying to show them how foolish they are to not understand ever what I can do to them. I am killing them slowly and therefore fooling them, for none can realize what would happen to them 20 years from now. They are all dying a slow death, their lungs, their brains, their eyes, their ears, each part of their body is slowly and gradually undergoing a change. If I would wish, I can also destroy them in a single moment. But with them, even I would cease to exist. Therefore, I am fooling them into slow death thereby also giving them a chance to redeem themselves. Only if one of them could be smart enough to understand my trick.

And I also do not need any one particular day to play tricks with humans as I play with them all year long, every day, every moment (read -floods, droughts, tsunami, cyclones etc). But on this April Fools Day, people become extra cautious and I wonder if one of them from somewhere would be smart enough to figure out my trick. Till then Happy Fools Day.

PS: I may drive some happiness by fooling the humanity but deep within I am sad and I want the humans to redeem themselves for in their happiness lies my prosperity and vice versa.
PPS: If you have still not figured out who I am, I reveal myself as Planet Earth.

with inputs from my dear friend Harshita Mittal.