A long time ago ,I remember my aunt describing to me a scene she had witnessed on her way back home from her workplace. She was travelling on a bus back home,when the bus had stopped in traffic.The bus happened to be standing right next to the walkway alongside.This afforded my aunt,who was sitting near the window , a good view of the scene outside.She noticed a rather plump lady walking her dog on the street outside.The street was an unpaved and muddy path. Now, those of you who have been a bit observant may have realized that ‘walking’ the dog is just the correct way of saying that you’re taking your dog out to answer nature’s call . As my aunt looked outside, she saw the dog restlessly sniffing the ground and straining his leash. The dog was agitatedly sniffing around looking for something . As he was doing this, his owner kept pulling him in the opposite direction.While pulling the dog ,the lady kept saying to the dog,“Come here Come here, its not dirty here” . As my aunt came to realize after sometime, the street outside was a regular ‘walking’ spot for the dog. Also, every time the dog came here, he always sniffed around till he found a spot on which he had not ‘walked over’ previously and set out to work ,walking all over it.

Darn dog! I thought,when i heard this story.Comes here everyday and uses the heightened of smell he has to find a clean spot so that he can now make it dirty! With this thought of the dogs stupidity, this story left my conscious mind and was buried deep in there for a couple of years till a funny coincidence brought it up. I happened to be staying in a dormitory where we had a bathing area at the intersection of two corridors. This bathing area consisted of a four bathrooms built in a manner such that two of them faced the other two.Out of these four bathrooms; because of reasons like a better water flow or more sunlight, I happened to be regularly bathing in just two of those bathrooms.One of these two regular bathrooms is closer to the entrance than the other.One evening I was in a hurry as I went for a bath, so I automatically looked in the bathroom closer to the entrance to see if i felt like having a bath there . On looking in ,I found that someone had just taken a bath there, the floor was wet, water droplets were splashed all along the wall and the bathroom felt a bit warmer too . Immediately, I turned and took a look into my other regular bathroom. To my delight, I found it completely dry, no smell, no water splashed anywhere, nothing . Perfect, I thought.

That’s when it hit me, I had just behaved exactly as the dog i had darned. The poor dog whom i had declared stupid, had he been standing here would have cried ‘Hypocrite! Hypocrite!’ . Though my situation wasn’t completely the same as that of the dog’s(It wasn’t me who had dirtied the first bathroom!).It was too similar for me to pass it by . I too had searched for a clean spot so that I could make it dirty!