THE TRUE IMAGE OF MAN IS HIS TOILET

                 A man's intelligentsia is judged by how he disposes off his 'dust'. That is what people in my native land say. They go further to add that there is no logic in blaming the toilet for the smell fuming out of it. All these statements point to one element; man's role in projecting himself. That man has no grounds to blame his environment for his faults. That responsibility lies squarely with man. That all actions originate from man's thinking. All happenings are manifestations of his thoughts. Man is inseparable from his actions.

             
                The moral here is that true reflections are done without coercion or external inspection. They boil from within and only come out when acted upon. Character is measured by what we do when we are alone. Not when our friends or seniors are around. Life is anchored on what we believe is right and that which we ought to do because our conscience demands us to. Not what is prescribed by law. Because respect of the law is nothing but ceding your moral grounding to a set of rules. It is for this reason that I find it awkward when men blame absence of laws for moral breakdown. I think this is self-defeating. We don't need laws in the first place. Laws are already anchored in our conscience. What we need to do is to respect the voice within us.Period.

                In the year 1630 in London, Robert Barker(a printer of the King James bible) wrongly printed copies of the Holy Bible omitting the word NOT in the "Thou shalt NOT commit adultery." Information leaked out to the 'faithful' about this new-found freedom. Celebrations were everywhere. People took this as a license to 'enjoy' themselves. It was a moment to do what the law 'dictated'.

                 

                For them,they had a 'justification'. That the Divine law gave them the 'lee-way' to do their acts. This sounded logical. But what is the import in this story? That there exists the spirit and the word of the law. The word is the external expression of the law on paper. The spirit is our conscience,the voice within us. Where the spirit  and the word of the law come into conflict, the trajectory taken by the spirit prevails. Committing adultery because 'the law legalized it' was a total negation of the spirit of the law. This is likened to blaming the toilet for emitting bad smell and not the true source of the smell. NOW IT IS UP TO YOU.Enjoy!