Why Do Mountains Complain? | Story | Nizam Hassan

We treat the mountains as our companions in peace, solitude, and most importantly, during war time. The people, who reside in or abode near mountains, have rather sentimental and ideological attachment with them, and are taken as source for the mental therapy.

“They (People) can feel the pain and anguish in which mountains pass through, and they can make them as their all-weather friends, unlike humans, they neither betray someone nor cheat on. Never!” Said Chakar to his mother, Naema, as if he has some divine power to understand the language of nature.

“Without people around mountains, they feel barren and often complain their grievances in a language which is the language of nature, therefore only those souls can understand and feel them who consider them as their friends and who spend time with them.” he continued.

Chakar Baluch who lived at a village which is surrounded by mountains though his mud-backed house was a bit far. In the east, west, north and south, every direction there stood some rugged mountains. Chakar Baluch, who was in love with nature, was an altogether unique character from the rest of the people who were taking breath at the same time in that village. The village, which rested on the lap of the nature, was an isolated village where people were living an extremely simple, unornamented and peaceful life, and having no any sort of modern facilities.

Since there weren’t any schools where the children of that village might get at least formal primary education, Chakar Baluch, who was a shepherd, had a big flock of at least one hundred goats and sheep. Besides, Chakar Baluch had some unusually fascinating instincts of communication and a sort of attachment with mountains about which no one knew in the village. Unlike other boys of his age, he didn’t even have  friends in the village because that vacuum of friendship was filled by the mountains.

When the sun dispersed it’s rays in the morning, Chakar too gathered his flock and made his way towards mountains where he spent his entire day in the lap of mountains where he felt his true self and true image. He usually talked aloud so that his voice may bounce back with that strength and vigor.

He released his emotional burden by talking with mountains, by feeling the aesthetic beauty, and above all, by sharing his pain and happiness. He could understand the language of the mountains, and it gave him an immense pleasure and bliss. It was a kind of emotional and spiritual exercise for him because the mountains were always there for him, no doubt how much the human surrounding altered. When he was in pain, the mountains were there; when was in great difficulty, these mountains were there for him; when he was fighting his enemies, these mountains were there, too. In all situations, whether tough or easy, the mountains stood beside Chakar and, more often mountains helped him getting out from psychological and emotion battle.

Chakar hardly spent days at home or with the villagers. Days, however, kept passed and Chakar maintained his companionship with mountains though it wasn’t new for him. Anyhow, Chakar has attached an emotional veil with mountains as his all time friends.

At the same time, the people of his region has waged a war for not having basic human facilities, and for snatching away their resources. In response, the people with the trim of power in hands, tried to quench them with military muscle, ignorant of the catastrophic aftermaths of such despotic policies. For few months, however, Chakar’s village could not feel the brutal waves of the status quo, but soon the people, covered in uniforms and equipped with weapons, started appearing at his village.

For them, it was a different planet where the culture, traditions and societal norms of villagers were altogether different. Initially, Chakar and rest of the villagers were not deeply concerned with the situation, but soon the paradigm was about to go through a tectonic shift. They, however, could not guess the extent of the situation which was beginning to take ground at his village. In the same vain, Chakar too could not perceive the sword of Damocles hanging over them.

Within a month, the men with uniforms and having weapons in their hands, established their sanctuaries in the village, thus keeping the movement of villagers restrained and curtailed. At the beginning, nevertheless, they made themselves limited in town, as situation got tense they too captured the mountains and made them as Prohibited Areas. Anyhow, Chakar still had optimistic perspective that he, as a shepherd, might be allowed to take his flock in mountains where he found true peace, love and mental therapy.

The decisive moment came on the day when Chakar took his flock and headed towards mountain, he saw two armed men approaching him fast.  “From now onward, we must not see you face here.” said one of armed men to Chakar in a harsher tone. Chakar tried his best of efforts resisting them, but all his efforts proved effortless. He also justified himself by saying that mountains are our friends how come you separate two friends. Nothing was working, every gesture of Chakar was falling in deaf airs. In this way, Chakar was probated going in mountains where he found true listener, true friends and companions. Now, they have restricted people from coming in mountains where people like, Chakar visited for much time. Mountains became sad and barren when people are separated from them, they require companions to listen their pain and grievances: said Chakar to his mother with fixed eyes at the mountain which stood very in front of his home. If you truly want to understand the language of nature, mountains are the ideal partner in this journey.

Nature, too, suffers in agony when alienated from human population.. The biggest and toughest tragedy knocked at Chakar’s door of life when those armed men with uniforms halted him going near mountains where he spent an age. The most important and precious element of life is FREEDOM, not only for the living souls of the Earth, but it is also important for the Nature. Like humans, nature also craves for freedom. It complains in a langual code which is hard to decipher by many.

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