KNOW YOURSELF

• If you usually put more sugar in your tea when in a hotel than you do at home, you are likely to be corrupt.

• If you use more tissue in a public washroom than you do at home, you are a potential thief, if given opportunity you would take what's not yours.

• If you serve yourself more food that you can finish just because someone else is putting the bill, you are greedy.

• If you usually overlap while in traffic jam or have no regard for traffic lights, then you would easily embezzle public funds if you are given a position at a public office since you hate regulation.

• If you channel waste or dirty water from your compound to a neighbour's compound rather than manage it, you are ill mannered.

Let us try to be people of character wherever we find ourselves.

Etima Rai