A/N: Well it's Earth Day today and I got specially inspired by that...I'll be retreating back into my shell of hiatus after this. Inspired by something I did when I was five too, haha.
Disclaimer: I don't own computer programs.
When the girl is five her parents send her for an art class.
She colours the sky red and the grass grey; she colours the waters brown and the faces of people a dry, murky yellow. When her teacher comes over to look, the adult tells her to change the colours of the art piece, so that the drawing would be similar to what other children do.
Why, she asks, do I have to follow other people's examples? The teacher's disappointed look at her childish retort is enough to make the little girl freeze in her frenzy colouring, and stare up at the dry yellow of her teacher's face. That is what the world is like in books, Miku. The teacher heavily sighs and places a fresh sheet of paper before the little girl's table. The sky is blue, the grass is green, the water is transparent with a bit of blue, and the people's faces are a healthy tan.
The girl doesn't say anything. She is not an eloquent girl, and she is afraid of the tall, scary monster that stands before her. So she takes the piece of paper and starts drawing lines on the paper in harsh grey pencil tones. The paper has been coloured and drawn on many times before, but it has been bleached in an attempt to make it white again. The previous layer of colours show through the newly bleached layer, and the girl finds dull shades of greens and blues.
No doubt the previous child also coloured the sky blue and the grass green.
And so she colours the sky blue and the grass green, like the child before her, like the child before that child, like the child before that child too.
When her parents come to pick her up in their fancy metal 'car', they laugh at her first drawing and smile satisfactorily at the second. They laugh at her fore colouring the sky red and the grass grey, but soon the adults forget that topic as they drive along the expressway.
But the little girl doesn't forget, and when the underground expressway frees itself into nature, she points out of the window and says, the sky is red, and the grass is grey, mummy.
Her parents turn to look, and catch a glimpse of factories chugging out smoke and fumes, enough to make the afternoon sky a blazing hot red, and the grass (even the trees) that grow alongside the roads are grey with dust. Then they turn to her and repeat, Miku, honey, the sky is blue and the grass is green. That is how it had been, and that is how it is now. You won't get it now, but you will get it when you grow up.
(The government, governments around the world, has decided to change the people's perception of colours. They have manipulated the people into believing that the hot reds and ashy greys of nature are actually blues and greens.)
But adults lie and children don't.
When she grows up she will realize she has lived in a lie.
When she grows up she will realize that the sky was once blue and the grass was once green.
When she grows up she will realize that the sky is now red and the grass is now grey.
When she grows up she will realize what her kind has done to the environment.
If she grows up.
Do celebrate Earth Day by turning off all electrical appliances for one hour! :D It would be good if you could do that everyday too!
You don't want this ^ to happen to you children, do you?
Little Trivia: By the end of this century the temperature of Earth would have been expected to rise by 7 degrees, causing major extinctions all around the world as well as other problems. If we continue wasting electricity, paper, wood etc.
