A Beaver Attack, Really?

  
  Another Friday morning spent sitting in class and writing a new blog post. You know what? This could be my new thing - tuning out my Eco Professor and writing a blog post every Friday. 

  Who knew you could actually do something productive while being bored? Is this the point where a normal person would pray to God that their parents don't read this? 
  I'm here with absolutely zero fucks given.

  Anyway, this post is about something that transpired yesterday in my English class. A little back story: every week one student must report current events/news taking place globally. This guy, let's call him Derek, so Derek started out pretty strong with the terror attack in St. Petersburg. Terror attack is a classic, I must say. He had our attention as he presented, and then a few minutes later my man, Derek, lost all his cred as he presented a news clip about the terror two beavers had been causing in the land of Liechtenstein.

  This is when you know you are living in a first world country; they think that something as inconsequential like two beavers in a river could cause havoc. He spoke about this particular topic for a while and the entire time I was thinking, "Boy, only if these people lived in India." I mean think about it,  a few years ago, when the leopard attacks started taking place, it was all over the fucking covers of the newspapers, right? But then after a few weeks, the newspapers stopped reporting it, not because they stopped happening, there was still a farmer somewhere that was being dragged away in the middle of the night by a leopard; but rather because after a while we became so desensitised to this that every time the reporters heard about an attack, they were like, "Fuck these leopards, let's cover something new. Eh, what about that building that fell down out of nowhere?"

  In India, we have serious problems like famines, poverty, illiteracy, let's not forget, leopards eating people, and so on and so forth. Imagine coming from a country, where these problems and many more exist and even if you don't personally suffer from them, you see people these problems affect everywhere around you day-in and day-out, and listening to people talking passionately about the traffic caused by the population growth in a country, where now forty-five thousand people live, without thinking that probably double the amount of people live in a one mile radius in Mumbai. 
  Lastly, try visualising Derek driving a car from Bandra to Andheri at the peak hour in a city, which twenty-one million people call home. 

Until next time!