once upon a time as winter set in, a large flock of flamingos were migrating to warmer places...
they were flying over a harsh arid desert when one of the flamingos spotted a beautiful oasis in the midst of barrenness....
the flamingo was feeling tired and thirsty and decided to fly down to the waters for a short rest.....
the water was so refreshing and the flamingo enjoyed the tryst with the oasis so much that he did not want to join his flock up in the sky. He did not heed the calls of the other flamingos, he was so engrossed with the oasis. His thirst satisfied, he broke into a flamingo dance to express his liking for the oasis.....
days dissolved into nights and nights rolled up their curtains to usher in newer days and the flamingo's liking for the oasis grew stronger.
other bigger animals came to the oasis to quench their thirst and this always made the flamingo angry....
'why do u allow these beasts to make your water muddy with their dirty hooves?' the flamingo would scream in his bird language.
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the oasis would laugh as the gentle ripples of the water played around the legs of the flamingo
'oases are born to help the thirsty and tired'.......she seemed to say.
one night as the moon shone on the oasis, the flamingo realized that there was nothing to be seen beyond the shimmering waters.....everything apart from the oasis was frighteningly dark.
it was a feeling of peace......satisfaction......love....it was an inexplicable bonding..
that night the clouds gathered and there was a violent thunderstorm.....
the flamingo stood on one leg near the bank of the oasis and wished silently........
being a flamingo he could not pray, so he wished that may the oasis come to no harm......
he tried to spread his wings to protect the water from sands but the water became choppy and the flamingo had to shut his wings to stay up as if the oasis did not want him to fight her battles......
that was the last rain in many years....
the unforgiving sun beat down mercilessly day after day as water dried up slowly....
the animals started to abandon the oasis as water dried up.....
the oasis bed slowly cracked up under the scorching sun.......
the flamingo did not leave his beloved oasis.....
the shrill calls of flying flocks of birds went unheard......
the flying birds shook their head in dismay....
'poor flamingo is so out of practice and can't fly now', they discussed among themselves....
when the last drops dried out, the tired, thirsty, defeated swallow stretched his wings as wide as possible and laid himself down on the dry cracked bed of the oasis....
when he opened his eyes against the sun rays he could not believe his eyes....
a small tuft of grass has grown on the parched earth.....
'where did the water come from?' he thought closing his eyes as a strange comforting coolness from the dry ground seeped into his body......
since then it has rained again.....
new animals now come to the oasis to drink water ......
the flamingo also drinks water but only from a crack where he had seen the grass grow when everything was dry.......
the flamingo always thought about that magical comforting feeling from the oasis bed when everything seemed to be lost and there was no hope for life......
'i will not leave till i resolve the mystery', he decided.......'the oasis had saved my life'
of course flamingos can never be geologists....
so flamingos will never know about Artesian Wells.....
flamingos will also never know that although oases are born to quench thirst of others, all oases do not have artesian wells within themselves.....
so this flamingo will not be able to solve the mystery and will stay till the end....
A LUCKY FLAMINGO INDEED !!!
they were flying over a harsh arid desert when one of the flamingos spotted a beautiful oasis in the midst of barrenness....
the flamingo was feeling tired and thirsty and decided to fly down to the waters for a short rest.....
other bigger animals came to the oasis to quench their thirst and this always made the flamingo angry....
'why do u allow these beasts to make your water muddy with their dirty hooves?' the flamingo would scream in his bird language.
'oases are born to help the thirsty and tired'.......she seemed to say.
one night as the moon shone on the oasis, the flamingo realized that there was nothing to be seen beyond the shimmering waters.....everything apart from the oasis was frighteningly dark.
that night the clouds gathered and there was a violent thunderstorm.....
the flamingo stood on one leg near the bank of the oasis and wished silently........
being a flamingo he could not pray, so he wished that may the oasis come to no harm......
he tried to spread his wings to protect the water from sands but the water became choppy and the flamingo had to shut his wings to stay up as if the oasis did not want him to fight her battles......
that was the last rain in many years....
the unforgiving sun beat down mercilessly day after day as water dried up slowly....
the oasis bed slowly cracked up under the scorching sun.......
the shrill calls of flying flocks of birds went unheard......
the flying birds shook their head in dismay....
'poor flamingo is so out of practice and can't fly now', they discussed among themselves....
when the last drops dried out, the tired, thirsty, defeated swallow stretched his wings as wide as possible and laid himself down on the dry cracked bed of the oasis....
when he opened his eyes against the sun rays he could not believe his eyes....
a small tuft of grass has grown on the parched earth.....
since then it has rained again.....
new animals now come to the oasis to drink water ......
the flamingo also drinks water but only from a crack where he had seen the grass grow when everything was dry.......
'i will not leave till i resolve the mystery', he decided.......'the oasis had saved my life'
of course flamingos can never be geologists....
so flamingos will never know about Artesian Wells.....
flamingos will also never know that although oases are born to quench thirst of others, all oases do not have artesian wells within themselves.....
so this flamingo will not be able to solve the mystery and will stay till the end....
A LUCKY FLAMINGO INDEED !!!
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