I am one of
the hundreds of thousands of motorist plying the expressway on a daily basis
considering where I put up in the Capital city. This express way has made
travelling easier considering what I do for a living. A few weeks ago, I put an
update on facebook, ‘Welcome to Thimphu greets the popular Thimphu gate; next
greeting-the stinks from the sewerage treatment plant’. The foul smell is
inevitable for road users but imagine the plight of those residing nearby the
plant. Many a time, because of the smell, road users try to escape the
discomfort by speeding along the treatment plant endangering other road users. This
is just a passerby’s observations.
I think it’s
high time we put the word responsible before everything. Consider the followings
for instance;
Driving down
and looking at the oncoming car with the cruelest look, when you were the one
on the wrong side of the traffic-Responsible Driving!
Offices
compile, detail and submit everything professional to the next higher office.
And when time for the details come, that higher office asks again to resubmit
what was submitted-Responsible office management!
When there’s
work, everyone takes the back seat. But when works come with some perk-package,
everyone wants to do it-Responsible work ethics!
Teenagers
loiter and get into all sorts of behavior, all nasty of course. Parents think
they are doing well by pumping and meeting up all their demands-Responsible
parenting!
Married and
relatively happy couples engage themselves in extra marital affairs without the
knowledge of one another-Responsible Relationship!
Bars and
restaurants serving alcoholic beverages to minors despite the standing order
‘No alcohol below 18’- Responsible Consumption! Creating a Bacchus[i]
Kingdom.
Offices
favoring friends and relatives on service delivery letting other people remain
stranded in long lines.-Responsible Public service delivery.
Time for
being responsibly responsible folks!