Coming from a political and a business background has its own pros and cons. I have been brought up in an environment where ettiquettes, mannerisms, the clothes you put on, your social behavior, all were under constant survelliance. This bringing up could even put the defence personnels to shame. Only, this time it was not my parents doing the moral policing.
Only last night I was talking to this friend of mine who again happened to talk about the moral brigade (and their importance), ready to fire on you the first time they spot you. I, though, have a completely different view point on this one.
Honesty has always paid off well in my case and that too with my parents. I am very sure that all of us lie to our parents at one point or the other. Well, I don't. Though, I would not say I have not been there.
Anyways, why is it that people are so interested in giving you all those moral lectures on what is right and what is not, when you pretty much can handle your life all too well.
Look around you, each one of us will have a set of friends always lecturing us on our social behavior, our likes and dislikes. All of us have our so called relatives (who call themselves our well wishers) always ready to pounce on us. Always interested in knowing the minute details of our social life, the details of our late night phone calls (if you happened to talk to someone late night, with them in vicinity), prying into our daily routine in an attempt to find out that one flaw which would give them enough to go around and gossip.
When our parents do not have any problem with us going out and socialising with our set of friends, or them coming over to our place, their trust in us to make right choices (obviously, giving everything the due consideration), what is it with the moral police always being on the guard?
Here, my friend said that they probably do not understand your view point. They have a different set of values. My answer to this: I do not want them to understand what I think about and I too have a different set of values. All my life, when my parents have trusted me enough to take the right decisions for myself and my family; I too have not let them down. I have always considered it more important to be honest with my folks and the people who matter to me. So, do I really need to bother about the other people who do not have anything else but to act inquisitive all the time and run away at the first sight of trouble that you face?
I know the answer to this one and I strongly feel about it. I am grateful, not only to those with whose views I may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before me the power of thought.
Bertrand Russell, a very famous British philosopher, once said, We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach !!!
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