“I wash my feet every time I step out,” my mother shouted as she rubbed her feet against the bathroom flooring. She had just stepped out to keep our dustbin outside the house for the sweeper to pick up the garbage. The alley leading to the staircase had a lot of dust settled on it. Our sweeper only visits once in two days to collect the garbage and sweep the staircase and alley. It was more than three days since he had come as he had caught the weather.
My mother could have swept the floor or mopped it. I also happen to step out while I perform the pooja in the morning. I light an incense stick on the beam adjacent to the threshold.
As I heard her words, a thought crossed my mind, “Aren’t we all behaving like my mom did in our relationships as well. We keep complaining that the other person is not behaving right, but we never take the effort to clean the discord. We just try to present ourselves as righteous rather than trying to clean the floor.
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