This is the typical pause that Dulce has when she is asked to 'come in' after play in the the courtyard ! It is a prolonged pause! We decided not to give a command a second time!
What is this prolonged pause for! To ponder on 'to come in or not to come in' !
If she hears the shaking of her biscuit tin, she rushes in without this pause!
So she is conditioned by her like for her biscuits!
Most of us have this conditioning habit! We do many things because they give us some pleasure or fulfillments. That is a good enough reason!
However this cannot be the whole reason for doing anything! When the Singapore government introduced a fine for littering the streets three decades back, people were introduced to doing something good ,although it was difficult initially! Now Singaporeans are habituated to keep the streets clean!
All practices or human behaviour ought to have a larger reason than just personal pleasure or gratification! What is good for me alone is not the issue, but what is good everyone is the real issue!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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