Illustration by Spoorthi Usha

Today I am going to write about the most important part of living creatures. The basic element for life to sustain and continue to live. Oxygen is an element in chemistry that has the Atomic number of 8 and having its chemical formula O2. Let’s move forward and work ourselves to know more about oxygen and how can we relate this to our well being.

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As we all know, plants produce Oxygen after photosynthesis and which helps our atmosphere to maintain the oxygen level. The primary component of living organisms to sustain is to breathe. We get oxygen from our atmosphere which helps us to breathe. Interesting thing is, Plants shits oxygen and also they breathe them as well. Trees and Plants do require oxygen to breathe as well.

Being humans, we cut trees to build buildings and to construct our homes, what happens if trees are not there? What happens there are only things which shit Carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas that is harmful to living creatures to breathe? Killing trees is almost like a suicidal attempt of humans to dig their graves.

Drawing by (Spoorthi Usha)

Everything is pretty good up to this point but, oxygen is also a supporter of combustion which helps the fire to spread that is the reason recently, half of the Amazon forest burned due to fire this year, killing millions of living creatures. Anyhow, I want to talk about good and bad things now. Every important element in our life has both pros and cons of its own. I mean to say is that we need to see everything in the way it is by gauging good and bad in it.

Oxygen is the supporter of combustion, whereas solid Carbon dioxide diffuses fire. It is used by fire extinguishers. We need to see the advantages of the materials we use. Everything in nature is there for an advantage. We humans, with our evil minds, try to use it for destructive purpose leaving our humanity behind.

Just Imagine, what is the feeling we get when we hear the word oxygen? Calm, blue and pleasant. Whereas, If we remember the word Carbon dioxide, we feel it as evil. We understand the true nature of a substance by stereotyping it. This is not the way we can lead our lives, we have to stop looking at things as evil, there is always an evil inside us. As long as we feed it, it always wins.

Drawing by Spoorthi Usha

This is the hard thing about hard things, being judgmental. Oxygen gives our life a purpose and the purpose is being pure and able to fuel our body with the right substance. As long as we keep all of our combustible things behind, we live, we can help others to live. Others are not only humans. Every living creature deserves to live in symbiosis with us. We are not a dominant species, our humanity is.

Plant trees more and more of them. Plant by the side of the road, beside your house, around your house, office, country side and everywhere. Living among trees, they are the perfect stressbusters and a true friend. #LiveSymbiotic

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