Cav's Place

The first part of the title refers to the fact that I quite randomly stumbled into the game at the end of last week and decided to install and start playing it yesterday. Definitely not playing The Witcher anymore, since I’m obviously too afraid of messing everything up after noticing how easy it seems to be to do that in that game, and six out of the last seven actual games I managed to finish were freeware, so I may have some luck with this at least.

The second part, on the other hand, has to do with how the trees on my street were “pruned”. I only noticed it yesterday, but the fact that I only did so on my way back, after the deep pits dug where I think trees used to be on another street made me pay more attention to them, means that it might as well have happened even weeks ago and I simply never looked up until then. Not that it makes much difference exactly when it happened, because either way it was during summer and that probably explains why the few leaves that are left look so burned even more than what was done does in itself.
To give you an idea, it’s not exactly like what happened in Constanta about a month ago, but that’s only because there are still some small branches and those leaves being burned by the summer heat, since little direct sunlight would have hit them normally. As far as the large branches go, however, those images depict what happened to the trees on my street quite well; almost everything was simply hacked away! What’s left now are trunks with little more than a few twigs coming out of them, which obviously can’t provide any shade and whose continued survival, not to mention anything about recovery, is seriously threatened.
Those trees had already been massive when I was little, most of them still looked healthy, and now they’re just… I can’t even find the words. It’s like they’ve been hacked to pieces and left to die, which is actually the only explanation I can find, that the authorities are looking for an excuse to cut them in another year or two. When I looked up and noticed it yesterday I was simply stunned, and then too angry to be able to fall asleep again after crawling back in bed after getting back, despite only getting some four or four and a half hours of sleep that morning.

Add that to this area behind the building, so in front of my window, being completely cleared of nearly every plant yet again some time ago and… What’s going on? This wasn’t a bad place to live, still somewhat green despite the large number of apartment buildings close to each other, but in recent years I’m seeing quite a “crusade” against Nature, with many different people seeming to simply want to do as much damage as possible for no other reason than because they can, and that definitely makes for one of those “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore” moments. Admittedly, this is a minor reason to feel that way compared to all the others, but it’s staring me right in the face every day now.