Committing Nuisance!

Cleanliness is Godliness. And they also say habit is the second nature.Infact, cleanliness is alien to our nature.Some say, of course jokingly, we carry ‘nasty’ gene. It means hereditarily we carry ‘nasty’ habits. This much is enough for you not to hold your patience and burst out in protest. Please rein in your emotion for some time and let me illustrate. Don’t many of us feel like spitting whenever we leave our home and translate our desire into action on streets? Do we ever think apart from making the street filthy we’re polluting the atmosphere with infectious germs that might be present in our saliva? What’s unfortunate, this spitting habit is not confined to poor and uneducated people only, it is seen among the rich and educated men too. As dogs can’t resist urinating when it finds lampposts, similarly some people can’t resist spitting coloured beetle juice(paan) whenever they find walls, may it belong to govt or private office or bank or be boundary wall of someone’s house. The analogy might sound crude, if not vulgar, but it’s true. Some times to stop spitting on the wall, owners put up tiles figured with god’s or goddess’s images on the walls. Owners believe gods or goddesses would save their walls from spitting even from a hardcore atheist. Now comes ‘open air bath room’ habit. It’s one of the most nasty habits some people indulge in on the streets. Nuisance they commit at any place they like making it an instant lavatory. Even the space beneath the no- nuisance board is not spared. However, entire blame should not be laid to those commit such nuisance. Some times they find no place to ease themselves other than these open air bath rooms. They see no urinal around or available urinal is too filthy.Perhaps,such free-response-to-nature’s call can be minimized by providing way side lavatories. But mind again, habit is the second nature. Can nature be easily changed?