The impatient lot

I live in Bhopal,which has a sizable  population of scooters and motorbikes crowding the streets everyday.
The difference between the people who drove earlier and the new drivers is this peculiar habit of leaving the headlights on,even during daytime.The older drivers did not have much to choose from,took great care of their hard earned asset-the scooter.
The new generation,is a different cup of tea altogether-brash,arrogant and with an insatiable desire for speed.
I feel,with the advent of automatic ignitions,when these drivers,switch on their engines,they forget to check if they have switched on their headlight as well.They do not seem to comprehend the problem faced by the pedestrians or other drivers of the street.
Everyone of these drivers are in a hurry-youngsters,be it students or well dressed yuppies and rustics,who have just switched from bicycles to scooters and motorbikes.
To them moving at breakneck speed is of paramount importance,the preservation of engines,which is overloaded with constant burning of the headlight bulb,is of no concern.
Depleting the global energy resource is of no concern to them either and least of all is the harm being done to the environment.
They can or their parents can afford the EMIs,that is what matters most and to reach whatever destination they are going to at the fastest possible speed-matters.No matter what happens to their asset-the scooter,the excess energy consumed or the damage done to the environment.

the burning trees

Everyday I take a walk with my dogs morning and evening.It is a pleasant walk but could be made lovelier if I did not have to encounter so many burnt carcasses of young,and mature old trees.Every day a few municipality sweepers come to clean the streets,which is fine,but the thing that really bothers me is that these people,gather all the fallen leaves and put them as mound around the base of large full grown trees and worst of all set fire to them.
I imagine what I would have felt if I was a tree,rooted to the ground,unable to move!Just the raging fire climbing up the body,scorching,burning,turning everything black-oh the pain,my heart aches and tears come to my eyes!That is not all-while the leaves burn along with the tree,little sparks ignite the scattered leaves and set fire to many tiny,fledgling plants and those poor tiny beings just stand and burn to death.
I wonder,why are these people not sensitized to the pain felt by our caregivers,these trees..Why do they not understand that there are so few trees left,how will we breathe,what kind of air will we breathe,if we kill the few that are left?
Should everyone not be taught -that WE MUST PROTECT THE TREES AROUND US.Sloganeering goes on,speeches are given,seminars held but no concrete action taken?