NIMBY !
No. This is not my Girl Friend's name. I wish, I had a girl Friend with such a funny name. But, I don't have one. In fact, this is an acronym. Not so common as the, WTF, POTUS or the hell lot. But we use it commonly, without knowing that we are. Not In My BackYard! We, all do have a list of things, that we don't wanna have in our backyards, don't we?
Let us take for example, the prison. Will we allow a prison to be built in our streets or will we rent a house, that is next door to a prison. Well, we won't Somehow, we believe all thieves, pimps, crank heads, and junkies will be our neighbours. Are these people so insane to be hanging in front of a prison, where the possibility of they being caught is more than anywhere else. Aren't we making a fool of ourselves?
How about a hospital then, where only the diseased and deceased are allowed? Well, crowds, noise, the smell of medicines, the sound of ambulance and much of a fuzz. We say, "NIMBY"! And then, when a child from our house, suffers from dysentery, we keep dialing all hospitals, to find a vacancy and a doctor without appointments. I tell you. Before you take the kid anywhere, he is gonna paint your house yellow. What is the FUCK is it?
We don't wanna theatre close to our house and curse our friend, when he takes us to a movie, that is screened 15 Miles away. We don't wanna school next door, and curse our children, when they ask for a bike to go to school. We don't wanna railway station, cause we hate those sounds of the crowd, and end up travelling more to reach the station, than to reach the destination. Did our brains dropped off, when we played basket ball when we were six ?
This is not all. We don't wanna old age home, home for mentally and physically challenged, pubs, clubs, discotheques, hotels, restaurants, bakeries, bars, liquor shops, welfare associations, trade centres, malls, saloons, laundries, hospitals, bus stands, theatres, movie halls, groceries, butchers, government offices, private corporations, book shops, libraries, grave yards, peeing animals and playing children. Quiet a long list.
And speaking of the spooky grave yards, I get reminded of those haunted houses. For centuries now, any house close to a grave yard is believed to be haunted. Blame those movie makers. We are made to believe that a 7 foot man, dressed in rags, with blood running all over, outside his body, with a axe in his hand will wake from his tomb and will try sharing our space. I believe. not only our brains, but also our balls dropped off.
And then, Where do we build our houses. Nature. We build our houses next to an ocean, and wonder why we weren't able to recover even a piece of wood from it, when the Tsunami struck. We build our houses, next to an active volcano and wonder why we have lava in our living room. We build our houses next to the jungles and wonder why snakes share our bed. We build our houses next to a mountain and wonder why an avalanche was waiting at the dinner table, uninvited. We build our houses in the middle of desert and complain to God for not giving us a neighbour. We are funny, aren't we?
So, keep in mind this. Each time you say a NIMBY to something. They are gonna say it back to you. So try to share this Earth with others peacefully. It was not created, only for you. So just change the 't' in the phrase to 'w'. Now In My BackYard. God(If there is any) will say it to you.
Let us take for example, the prison. Will we allow a prison to be built in our streets or will we rent a house, that is next door to a prison. Well, we won't Somehow, we believe all thieves, pimps, crank heads, and junkies will be our neighbours. Are these people so insane to be hanging in front of a prison, where the possibility of they being caught is more than anywhere else. Aren't we making a fool of ourselves?
How about a hospital then, where only the diseased and deceased are allowed? Well, crowds, noise, the smell of medicines, the sound of ambulance and much of a fuzz. We say, "NIMBY"! And then, when a child from our house, suffers from dysentery, we keep dialing all hospitals, to find a vacancy and a doctor without appointments. I tell you. Before you take the kid anywhere, he is gonna paint your house yellow. What is the FUCK is it?
We don't wanna theatre close to our house and curse our friend, when he takes us to a movie, that is screened 15 Miles away. We don't wanna school next door, and curse our children, when they ask for a bike to go to school. We don't wanna railway station, cause we hate those sounds of the crowd, and end up travelling more to reach the station, than to reach the destination. Did our brains dropped off, when we played basket ball when we were six ?
This is not all. We don't wanna old age home, home for mentally and physically challenged, pubs, clubs, discotheques, hotels, restaurants, bakeries, bars, liquor shops, welfare associations, trade centres, malls, saloons, laundries, hospitals, bus stands, theatres, movie halls, groceries, butchers, government offices, private corporations, book shops, libraries, grave yards, peeing animals and playing children. Quiet a long list.
And speaking of the spooky grave yards, I get reminded of those haunted houses. For centuries now, any house close to a grave yard is believed to be haunted. Blame those movie makers. We are made to believe that a 7 foot man, dressed in rags, with blood running all over, outside his body, with a axe in his hand will wake from his tomb and will try sharing our space. I believe. not only our brains, but also our balls dropped off.
And then, Where do we build our houses. Nature. We build our houses next to an ocean, and wonder why we weren't able to recover even a piece of wood from it, when the Tsunami struck. We build our houses, next to an active volcano and wonder why we have lava in our living room. We build our houses next to the jungles and wonder why snakes share our bed. We build our houses next to a mountain and wonder why an avalanche was waiting at the dinner table, uninvited. We build our houses in the middle of desert and complain to God for not giving us a neighbour. We are funny, aren't we?
So, keep in mind this. Each time you say a NIMBY to something. They are gonna say it back to you. So try to share this Earth with others peacefully. It was not created, only for you. So just change the 't' in the phrase to 'w'. Now In My BackYard. God(If there is any) will say it to you.
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