Beliefs and behaviour!

It is common to find sign posts in pubic places to help people find their  direction and location.

It is not common to find elegantly crafted sign boards. So sighting this was indeed a surprise.

I asked a few people why this house alone is given a special status of a unique sign post. One of them mentioned to me that 'all the houses ought to have such visible and aesthetically prepared sign post'.

A good thought! The houses have impressive outer appearance, but the sign boards do not conform to its corresponding elegance!

This is a dichotomy in real life! There are mismatches in the way we function. A friend of mine travels in his car five kilometers to buy fish at five or ten rupees cheaper for a kilo. He would have spent almost an hour in this exercise and burned a litre of petrol! He looses a lot more while trying to save.

How can we live coherently with least paradoxes! A child helped me to understand this better. Ever since there has been the campaign for 'Swatch Bharat', this seven year boys insists on gathering the waste from the kitchen to make a compost. His sister is his helper in this. He told me in a conversation, that 'we keep the environment clean not to show others what we do, but because keeping the environment clean is our way of living'.

His focus was on integrative living by resonating in behaviour what he believes in!

Our beliefs determine our behaviour!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)