Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Your Shit is Your Responsibility ! :| !

There are three things which are the most personal of all issues revolving around every individual - One is Religious Preference - Which interpretation of God to follow. Two is Sexual Orientation- Left to the will of the individual. Three is - WHAT YOU DO INSIDE A LOO [ Considering only the loos with a door, latch in place and with no hidden cameras :P] It is true. What you do inside a loo is your business. How you use it, is your business. But in the end, your shit is your responsibility. Its frustrating to even think of the fact that people treat the public lavatories with all contempt of royalty, leaving it "unflushed", assuming that someone's gonna take responsibility for their shit... Drives me nuts! The immediate line of reasoning would be, may be these people are from the village and aren't used to the "toilets". Well, be it the village or a city, the shit is the same. The Cleansing agent (Water) is the same. Only the place is going to be different. My point is, why can't people use the loo, and take a look at the place, before they quit the place, thrusting the shit-cleaning responsibility to someone else ? If everybody makes it a habit to develop clean loo habits, then there are chances of seeing cleaner toilets in the suburb Bus stands, cleaner toilets in the ever stinking railway networks..The only problem one can probably take into account is the "dry", "rusty" taps. Even if the taps don't function, there is usually a tank right outside the public toilet, stored with water. I've seen this water filled tank in many public toilets. Despite this, why are the toilets a mess all the time? What is wrong in developing a clean habit? What does the system need ,to solve this problem of nasty public toilets? Well, from what I've seen, its not just the public toilets which are in a devastating state... What you are at home, you ought to be better when you are outside. So only if the clean habits exist inside a household will it reflect on the sense of personal hygiene when a person steps out of the house. The only solution is to bring up kids the proper way. It's a simple process. Teach the kids to "take a look" before stepping out of the loo. Do all that you can, to clean the mess. If every individual can take care of their shit, then soon we'd probably see a better India. India would escape the cynicism of the Brits. India would escape being called "that poor country". India would stop featuring in "world cinema" - for its harsh reality alone, ignorant of its beauty. Though this post is all about "Shit", it is small things like this, which when corrected, can save us from getting into "Deep Shit" !! *All pun intended!* :D :D :D

Stumped!

This happens whenever I take a train from Chennai to Bangalore (Ahem..read as whenever I travel alone!). After taking consecutive modes of ...