WINDBREAKS by Stephen Wholesome

  

Windbreaks are good. 

Worth noticing is the way a branch flaps against the other in tirade of bent submission to the supernatural power that drives them, the noise the leaves produce when the wind forces them to perform this strenuous duty, and the fear the noise produces in the mind of a human lying down in the house as if the walls are the ones receiving this merciless torment. 

Windbreaks are great.

But are those the most fascinating things about windbreaks? For me, maybe. I love the sounds the trees give — the quiet noise that transports me from honks, tyre-screeches and blares to a serene land broken only by the silence of the trees when the wind drives its might against them. 

For the ecologist, windbreaks serve their name well. They arrest and contain the rage of the wind as it flies all the way from the four corners of the earth with a mind to tear a house apart. They receive the lashes of the wind. At times, they break an arm, two or more. And when they break a leg, the only leg they have, that results into their fall and becomes their end, just in the process of protecting the wall. 

Who are your windbreaks? Tell me. They don’t need to break an arm or leg for you. They just need to be strongly built and committed to you that you can go to sleep with your two eyes closed. 

Talking of ‘strongly built’, your windbreaks should be able to stand the test of time. And of ‘commitment,’ your windbreaks should be devoted to you at all cost. But is there anyone like that? Do we have anyone like that in our lives? You can answer the question. Whatever your answer is, when next you’re building a home, make a good consideration for windbreaks.