Not Meant To Be Gone

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I have thought and imagined a scenario where I had the power to bring life back. And to be honest, at first, the first thought I have is to bring back someone I have lost, my loved ones, and people I care about.
But then, when I begin to go deeper into my thoughts, I ask myself questions like—
Would I want to lose them again?
Would they even be happy to be back? I can never tell if they would until I bring them back, and it might end up being against their will.

I even ask myself the question— will it be an act against nature?

So today I have chosen something that would be better.

I have grieved people I have lost, but there is this pain, something uniquely haunting about grieving the destruction done by our own hands.

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If I had the power to bring back life, it would be the DODO BIRD.
Every loved one I have lost, I believe, was taken naturally.
But the extinction of the dodo was a horrible act against nature. A careless act that led to the extinction of a life.

The dodo was harmless and peaceful. They were no one's enemy and had no enemy, which made them flightless and defenseless.
They lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. They ate fruits and roots with no natural enemies. Their ecosystem was perfectly balanced.

That's until the humans arrived.
The humans hunted the dodo, and they came with pigs and dogs that ate the eggs of the dodo. It was so easy for humans to catch them as they had lived so peacefully for all their existence, making them not know fear and even innocently walk up to humans.
They were hunted for their meat. Although some reports state that the meat from the dodo wasn't very tasty.

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I usually wonder if they had chickens, pigs, and other sources of food. So what made them hunt the dodos? Okay, even though they decided to make the dodo a source of meat, why did they become extinct? They had other sources they used for meat, but they haven't become extinct to date.

Well, I think it was pure carelessness of humans. Who knows, maybe they even got pleasure from preying on a creature nature had no intention of preying on.
In just a space of sixty years, they were able to drive a species into extinction. In one human lifetime, humans undid a work of nature that existed peacefully for thousands of years.

And it isn't just the dodo that has experienced and suffered the consequences of human carelessness; we have the Tasmanian tiger misunderstood and hunted, the billions of passenger pigeons hunted and disappeared in a blink, and the baiji wiped out by pollution.

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And I think, what if we could bring at least one back?
Would we be able to make up for our mistakes? Would we protect them?
Would we stop hurting nature?
I know the past can't be changed, but maybe we can stop adding names to the list of extinction?

I know death to be natural—an essential part of nature, but the extinction caused by our hands can never be natural; it's something not meant to be.
And I believe we can make a change by not repeating the past.