The crows-connection

Windows and balconies were invented just so that Man could gaze at the world outside and ponder.

Electrical lines and cables were invented just so that birds could perch on them and ponder.

If either of the aforementioned species has the company of another member of the same species, the pondering turns into conversation.

I gazed out of the window. A crow was perched on an electrical line. She was obviously pondering. Another crow came flying by and took perch on the adjacent electrical line.

Crow 1: Hey! What's up??
Crow 2: Ah! There you are! Heard u finally got a placement on top of Burj Dubai...Congratulations! (offers handshake/wingshake)
Crow 1: Wha...backoff! Wingshake? You out of your senses? We're sitting on electrical lines of different phase voltages; if u touched me, we'd form a circuit with a voltage difference that would kill bo.....
Crow 2: Okay, okay..gotcha! Damn those humans! Knives and fire everywhere!
Crow 1: Hehe...T hanks, by the way.. yeah, the Burj is indeed spectacular. But i wonder what humans are really after...
Crow 2: Er...what do u mean?
Crow 1: Look at us ; we're such a peaceful lot. And look at them...they're so restless...
Crow 2: Hmm... Evolution has been cruel to them, you say?
Crow 1: Well, you could put it that way. They've evolved too much for their own good. Now every man wants to be better than the next.
Crow 2: Hmm... Maybe you're right. Chronic restlessness...the insurmountable itch to 'progress'...
Crow 1: Yeah, and I'm not really comfortable with their definition of 'progress' either...it's got a lot to do with brute force and brute reason!!
Crow 2: It's like, where one man gains, another has to lose. It's like an endless, perpetual see-saw.
Crow 1: Believe me, this see-saw is incidentally what keeps the world going.
Crow 2: Eh? What do u mean? That inequality and imperfection are the hands that run the world?
Crow 1: Not really. Let's presume that man is ultimately selfish. Their world, unlike ours, will never become perfect. There will always exist differences that'll bother man to insanity; and these differences keep the see-saw in motion...and Evolution in action.
Crow 2: Hmm..alright...and what abt us?
Crow 1: Well, we are different..and way better off.. our happiness is absolute. If I get my supper and you get yours, we're both happy. As for man, it's a very complicated relative matrix of needs, passions and emotions that are forever trying to balance each other.
Crow 2: ...and the fact that 'it's all relative' makes things as they are?
Crow 1: Exactly! Their world needs as fuel - jealousy, anger, lethargy, fear, folly, hatred and imperfection; otherwise it would crumble down and mankind would fall...
Crow 2: Er...didn't get you there..
Crow 1: If every man were happy, then civilization would fall. If every man were contended, his life wouldn't be different from ours - all he would have to do is, what, eat and sleep?
Crow 2: Eat and sleep and ponder*
Crow 1: Hehe... So in such a world, there would be no disease, no crime, no hunger.. Necessity would be a non-existent concept.. Man wouldn't evolve.. he would stay put.. he wouldn't budge.. no art, no culture, no sophistication.. the world would be a very predictable, boring place..
Crow 2: So true.. and it all wonderfully connects! 'All the world's a stage, all the men and women merely players, and all of us crows merely spectators!'
Crow 1: Ha! Shakespeare, in all his hurry, left out the last bit.. poor bloke probably thought we crows wouldn't know of it!
Crow 2: Yeah! So much for all the entertainment! Man ought to live! Manwatching is a glorious pastime..
Crow 1: Hehe. Anyway, I'm gonna take off now. It's been great talking to u. Caw-caw!
Crow 2: Caw-caw!

Pic: The Global Ponderers' Summit

(P.S: Unless you feel guilty abt Not Blogging for 2 months at a stretch, never ever listen to a conversation between crows! Caw-caw!)