This is another adventure of Mowgli from Jungle Book, not written by Rudyard Kipling, but springing from my own vivid imagination.

So, Mowgli suddenly comes across a great divide, “What’s this?” he asks.

“It’s a Divide,” the animals tell him, “We all have to cross over!”

“Cross over to what?” asks Mowgli, puzzled.

“Cross over to Two Thousand Twenty- Five!” shout the animals.

“How?” asks an apprehensive Mowgli.

“Just leap over it!” shouts the kangaroo, “That’s how you land into the New Year, just give a huge jump, and hey presto, you are on the other side! Do what you’ve been doing throughout the old year, just jumping from one excitement to the next!”

“Run across!” said the Leopard, “Don’t slow down, just increase your speed and rush headlong into all the activities that the New Year brings. Don’t spend time to relish and enjoy, just rush through!”

“Stomp your way across!” cried the elephant, “Walk rough shod over people and things and don’t stop to think who you have trampled underfoot!”

The serpent who was listening with a smirk came close to Mowgli and whispered, “Just slither through my boy. Be cunning and clever and move into the New Year using craftiness and slyness. Be a chess player and make moves that will fool others this new year!”

Mowgli walked to the edge of the great divide and looked fearfully across at the new year. He looked at the animals as they looked back at him. Some urged him forward, some winked, the elephant trumpeted, and the serpent hissed.

A bird flying above whispered, “Fly across dear Mowgli, that’s what we do. Pretend there’s no divide and keep flying with your heads in the clouds, maybe, use liquor or drugs till you fall and die!”

Mowgli shook his head. Somehow, he found all the advice, only made him more wary and afraid of stepping across.

He looked fearfully at the divide and pondered on how to get across!

“Burrow under,” said a rabbit, “Get under the divide and nobody will notice you in the new year. Just become another invisible person like you’ve been throughout the old year! Don’t become noticeable, don’t lead, don’t show yourself, just burrow, and hide!”

It was then that Mowgli felt a presence, looked up, and saw what no animal could see; two huge hands open, and a Voice saying, “I’ll take you across dear Mowgli. I created you and all mankind, and unlike those animals who have to use their skills, you have been created to use me. Now walk into my hands, and let me take you across, and do you know something? if you want, I need never put you down as you go through the whole of 2025!”

And as the astonished animals watched, Mowgli, nestled in God’s hands and was carried across..!

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