Keeping Ourselves Clean and Healthy

We appreciate many things which others have. Appreciating is not enough. We must try to practice and show others that we can do better. This develops discipline and confidence in us.

Daily we come across so many people and find fault with their behavior. But the true fact is we never look at ourselves. It is necessary for us to practice self discipline. This would involve giving a lot of importance on not throwing waste on the road or spitting on the road and making it dirty. We appreciate so many countries for their cleanliness and best roads. When it comes to our country, we immediately blame the politicians and the government for not keeping the country clean. When we are able to look at others and appreciate, we can also try practicing it in our daily life.

The general mindset of people is, we always want a rule to be given. We are able to appreciate movies like Anniyan (which shows the hero wanting everybody to be neat) where we see the hero trying to signify the point of following certain norms in life. As soon as we are out of the theatre we throw the tickets on the road. In case if your friend advises you not to throw papers on the road, you immediately make fun of him. When we ourselves are not able to follow it how we can expect others to do it. When the government imposes fine, we may try to follow those norms in our life

Let me quote an example here. Everybody prefers to keep our houses clean to a certain extent. When we arrange for a party or a get together in our house, we try to place things in the appropriate places. Further more we project ourselves as neat people in front of the guests. The same way we should consider our country as our home. We should have a feeling that all the foreigners coming to our country should appreciate our neatness as the way they appreciate our cultural heritage.

Practicing certain things in life is hard. Anything if we practice continuously for 21 days it shall become a routine. We get chances of travelling in the bus. We take tickets. The immediate thing we do is as soon as we get out of the bus we throw it down. Lets try being patient by keeping the ticket in our pockets/purses and throwing it in a near by dustbin. These kinds of mistakes lead us to dirty surroundings.

We all know that trees are very important and ozone layer is becoming thinner. Many trees are cut down for the making of papers. We can throw our decomposable wastes into a decomposable basket which can be used as manure for the small plants which we grow in our apartments/flats / houses.

There is a team called Exnora which helps to keep the city clean. Most of us know the area Tiruvanmiyur in Chennai or everybody must have been to Bangalore at least once. Have you ever wondered why this area/city is better than the others? Not much of wastes are there on the roads. The streets are clean with many waste paper baskets round the corner. This is one area/city where there are less or even to say no mosquitoes. Why can’t each one of us sit and think of building the city in a cleaner way.

There are baskets available in the market for decomposable and non decomposable wastes. By segregating the garbage at source it is easier to classify the waste. By following certain simple methods, all the vegetable wastes can be turned to manure. This manure can be reused for plants. If you want to make money out of it sell it to a nursery.

Try to tell your friends about being clean and keeping the society clean. When you see somebody dropping paper on the road, don’t allow them to do it. Instead get it from their hand and put it in a dustbin. Do this each and every time when they drop paper. Generally people with common sense after the 3^rd time will not wish to throw garbage on the ground, they will realize their mistake and will not do it (Lets hope so!!).

Please don’t read this as yet another article. Please think about this and if we decide on this, even Chennai can become a world class city!

Hoping that day would come soon…..

P.S: About the title, we are the country. So I put it as keeping ourselves clean!!