HYGIENE

It is more difficult for some people to take responsibility than to deliver a healthy set of twins without getting pregnant.
And they'd readily prefer you to put grains of sand into their dish than to point out, to them, where they're lapsing and not getting it right.
How else can we explain a situation where certain folks are refusing to own up to obvious responsibilities because they would just prefer not to be told to do so by anyone.
But I have one question for such people. If you know you'd sooner die than to be told what to do, why not try and be a little bit proactive and identify those things yourself, deal with them so that they don't all together become eyesores, all-the-senses-sores to others around till they cannot help it any longer but point them out to you, albeit meekly?
Chinonso was sure she's had more than enough of such attitude, and was almost beside herself for lack of what to do to address the particular situation she was faced with, different from what she's done already, without being the person she's trying with all of her being not to be on a daily basis, mean. Or on a much lesser note, the person they might think they have reason to think she is, forward.
But why can't some persons be responsible themselves, for themselves, and even for others; responsibility does come with the whole package. Why do they have to wait to be told before they find out that they ought to clean up, collectively, the GP tanks that's been the source of water in the apartment especially when it rains, Chinonso mused. Afterall, they're all using it, some of them for more than a year, before she very recently became one of them, and the insides appear dirty enough to breed various germs and bacteria as they would be unfortunately nonchalant to allow. Very nasty it is to think that they cook their daily meals with said water and still feel comfortable.
Chinonso was convinced they, the GP tanks, haven't been washed for a longer time than is convenient. Dirt, dirty dirt.
Irresponsibility at it's peak, Chinonso almost spat out. Oya go wash am na, sebi you say e dirty, as na you clean pass. Went a full blown lady, shamelessly. Ehn, you start first na, shuoo, why you just dey talk, go start make you see whether we go join you or not. Another fully grown lady chipped in as reaction to Chinonso's stance that the cleaning should be a collective work of concerned, well meaning, even if only for themselves, occupants of the apartment. Chinonso could only shake her head in utter disgust.
Responsibility is not a course taken in the university, or at least I do not remember that much. Actually, it happens to be a topic treated in secondary school; Civic Education, Social Studies, Moral Instruction and what have you; on the other hand, I remember this much because I have a lot of times taught same topic. Whether or not it is being taught, everybody is supposed to have a sense of responsibility. If you wait till you receive lessons on everything before you actually practise them, you might wait forever, and find out ultimately, you've only succeeded in wasting away.
Being a graduate isn't enough.
Being educated isn't enough.
Learn hygiene.
Inculcate responsibility.
Ask Chinonso, she'd enlighten you, both off her lesson notes, and more importantly, her head notes.