------------------- ABRIDGED VERSION
I stuck something under your chair. Could you please take that now?
You found nothing right? Conscience is also like that. It's an intangible person living with us and would always bark like a dog whenever we do a mistake. Conscience would help you to take the right decision but if you don't budge, as the last resort, it would take the avatar of one of your well-wishers - your father, mother, brother, sister or your teacher.
Coming to the title - What do you want to be - an empty or fully loaded matchbox? For now, you understand that we all are empty matchboxes when we were a child.
Scene 1:
Friday evening. Office closing time. One of my friends called me..
"Hello Ammavasai... tell me"
"Senthil, Can we go to the bar tonight?"
"Definitely.. definitely.. we can go.. da"
( "Lol.. Lol.."
"Hey, who are you? why are you barking?"
"I am your conscience. Only this January you took a resolution that you will not drink and will do yoga regularly but ironically, you are drinking regularly and doing yoga."
"What? I am doing yoga after drinking?"
"Hey! Shut up... You Idiot... I will do whatever I want")
Now the conscience took the avatar of my wife with a menacing look like Calcutta Kali and with slippers in her hand.
I changed my mind.
"Ammavasai, You carry on. There is a doctor appointment this evening".
Scene 2:
1995- Marketing job. I sold an online training course for school students in Madurai. The online company marketed with a catchy slogan "Learn with Monica @ your home and @ your own pace.."
A sixth standard student's father asked me to come to his home.
I pressed the calling bell. The student opened the door and shouted "Daddy!! call the police... ", ran away and hid himself behind a door.
"Thambi, why are you hiding there? Call your daddy."
"Uncle, My father is searching for you to handover you to the police. I am really excited to see police at my home."
Student's father came.
"We have been waiting for Monica for more than a month."
"Sir, this is an online course. Teacher will not come to your home. You have to login to learn from Monica.."
"What are you blabbering? Then why did you give an ad like - Learn with Monica at your home. You got my money but you are not sending the teacher. I will go to court."
"Sir, give me 5 minutes.. I will show you Monica.."
"How? Will you bring her by magic?"
"Sir, believe me.. show me the computer"
"We don't have a computer..."
I felt guilty... I should have educated them before selling the course.
This time conscience took the avatar of my father. "Son!! You should feel guilty for the mistakes done and should not repeat the same.." I quit that job.
Our mistake is like a match stick and we are the matchbox. In my examples, my wife & father made me to ignite the match stick and I resolved by choosing not to drink and by quitting the job. If you follow conscience and resolve issues then and there, you will feel the heat and pain for some time but you will be happy for the rest of your life. But if you ignore conscience, sticks will accumulate one by one and one day all match heads will collectively become a big explosive and you have to face the music.
So please be an empty matchbox and lead a happy life.
----------------------------------------- FULL VERSION
Conscience would learn from everyone who teaches or advice - like our father, mother, brother, sister, wife, teacher, friend or any well-wisher. There is a proverb - Conscience is the dog that can't bite but never stops barking. Sometimes our father would play the role of the dog and sometimes our mother or wife - depending on the situation.
Scenario 1:
Friday - office closing time. One of my friends called over phone.
"Machi. Can we go to bar tonight?"
"Oh.. Yeah.."
( "Lol.. Lol.."
"Hey, who are you? why are you barking?"
"I am your conscience. Only this January you took a resolution that you will not drink and will do yoga regularly but ironically, you are drinking regularly and doing yoga."
"What? I am doing yoga regularly after drinking?" (Oh... It says how I stumble in the booze..)
"Hey! Shut up... You Idiot... I will do whatever I want"
Now the conscience took the avatar of my wife. Immediately I saw the picture of my wife with a menacing look like Calcutta Kali and with slippers in her hand.)
"Machi... You carry on. There is a doctor appointment this evening".
Our conscience is like a match stick and we are the matchbox. Here my wife struck the match stick against me. I let it ignite and resolved it by changing my mind.
Scenario 2:
1995, the time when PC era started flourishing, there was a little or no awareness about computer or internet in my hometown Madurai. I joined a small company as a computer operator. One day when my working PC stopped working due to viral infection, I informed my MD that I am cleaning my PC with virus scanner. The way he reacted shocked me -
"Senthil, you are very careless.."
"Sir, I didn't do anything wrong."
(MD peeped into the computer room)
"First close the computer with cover"
"Sir, I can't work!"
"No Problem. You first close it and shut the computer room and then we can talk"
"Sir, done sir."
"Ok, now you tell me how the virus got spread to the computer? You got infected with viral fever recently?"
"No Sir. Virus is just a program. Give me one day time, I will clean it"
"No Senthil.. Anything may happen.. I can't take risk. I will call the computer dealer"
"Sir, it's not needed. I can clean with a virus scanner"
"Senthil. Don't argue. I am your MD. This is the computer dealer's address. They are not picking up the phone. You go in person and bring them."
I didn't go to office for next two weeks. Though I explained the dealer that it can be resolved with full virus scan, they informed my MD that they will send an engineer on daily basis for a week and the computer should be under monitoring for one more week. The engineer would examine the computer one hour daily and I should not stay in the office after that one hour and I should go to dealer's office to analyze the root cause and provide update by end of the day daily for two weeks.When I said the dealer that I can't cheat like this, they asked me to go home daily and they will provide an update to MD on daily basis. After two weeks they charged Rs. 2500/- as service charge. You could understand the value of the money from my salary which was Rs.1500/- at that time.
This time my brother had struck the match stick. I imagined how he would thrash me with belt when I tell lie. I let the match stick ignite by quitting the job.
Scenario 3:
Marketing job - I sold an online training course for school students in my hometown, Madurai. At that time, we can easily tell the total number of people having internet connection. The online training company marketed their courses with a catchy slogan "Learn with Monica @ your home and @ your own pace.."
One of the student's fathers who bought the course asked me to come to his home.
"We enrolled our son in your course around one month ago but we are still waiting for the teacher. We want to know when Monica will come?"
"Sir, this is an online course. You have to login with your username and password which was sent through email."
"What are you blabbering? You got my money but you are not sending the teacher. I will go to court."
Then I checked with his son and found out that there was no computer at their home. Then I asked him why you bought this course. He told that his father only bought after seeing the advertisement.
Though I tried to convince his father by asking to send his son to our office nearby, he didn't accept. All he wanted was Monica @ his home.
I felt guilty... I should have educated them properly and checked whether they have a computer and internet connection in the first place before selling the course.
This time my father had struck the match stick. "You should feel guilty for the mistakes done and should not repeat the same.." I let the match stick ignite by quitting the job.
Scenario 4:
School computer science teacher - School Vice Principal, a man of ethics, would do a surprise check in students' school bag for Porn video CDs. The CDs collected would be handed over to me as I am the head of computer department. I have to check the contents and report to the management. One day the Vice Principal came with a CD and asked me to play.
"Sir, the opening clip itself clearly shows its a porn video CD. You can take action against the student."
(He is also sitting with me and looking at the monitor)
"Oh.. is it? can you please skip a little and check?"
(He watched the second clip)
"Sir, could you please go to the middle and check?"
(I lost my patience this time..)
"Sir, the whole CD will have that sort of clips only.."
"We should check correctly. At least you go to the end.. sir.."
(After watching, he came again in the evening with Physical education sir.)
"Sir, please play the CD for PT sir.."
(Now both are watching..)
"Sir, just skip a little as you did this morning.. PT sir, we have to take strick action..watch this!!"
(PT sir is speechless..)
"Sir, show the end also sir"
After that, Vice Principal took the cd with him that evening. Night around 8pm he called me over mobile.
"Sir, how to play the cd in computer? You selected many options this morning.."
"Sir, just insert the cd in the drive.. it will autoplay"
"Sir, Super sir.. it is coming.."
Again a call at 9pm..
"Sir, urgent... how to switch off?"
"In the upper right, you can see a close X button.. click it.."
"Sir.. where? its urgent.. my wife is back from shopping.."
Then he hung up the phone suddenly...
Next day, he met me and informed that he was caught red-handed by his wife.
"Why sir? what happened? I asked you to click close.. right? "
"Sir, I don't know what to do in the tension. I just laid down the monitor horizontally with the screen facing down on the table.. then my wife lifted it and saw the movie running.."
I felt guilty because I used to take a copy of the CD once it comes to me and also copied the same to the male teachers requesting me.
This time my mom had struck the match stick. "Be careful at the workplace... Enemies would always find for opportunities to trap you.." I let the matchstick ignite by neglecting the requests from the teachers to copy CDs.
As I said in the above scenarios, someone would strike the matchstick against you. It is up to you to let it ignite or neglect it and keep the stick with match head in the matchbox. If you let it ignite, you will experience pain for a short while and then you will have peace of mind. Otherwise sticks with match head will get loaded one by one and one day all match heads will collectively become a big explosive and you will find it difficult to fix.
So please let the match stick to strike against you and resolve the things then and there to lead a happy life with clear conscience.
So please be an empty matchbox.
----------------------------------------------------- References
Conscience - the innate sense of right or wrong. The fight between Morality and Immorality.
I stuck something under your chair. Could you please take that now?
You found nothing right? Conscience is also like that. It's an intangible person living with us and would always bark like a dog whenever we do a mistake. Conscience would help you to take the right decision but if you don't budge, as the last resort, it would take the avatar of one of your well-wishers - your father, mother, brother, sister or your teacher.
Coming to the title - What do you want to be - an empty or fully loaded matchbox? For now, you understand that we all are empty matchboxes when we were a child.
Scene 1:
Friday evening. Office closing time. One of my friends called me..
"Hello Ammavasai... tell me"
"Senthil, Can we go to the bar tonight?"
"Definitely.. definitely.. we can go.. da"
( "Lol.. Lol.."
"Hey, who are you? why are you barking?"
"I am your conscience. Only this January you took a resolution that you will not drink and will do yoga regularly but ironically, you are drinking regularly and doing yoga."
"What? I am doing yoga after drinking?"
"Hey! Shut up... You Idiot... I will do whatever I want")
Now the conscience took the avatar of my wife with a menacing look like Calcutta Kali and with slippers in her hand.
I changed my mind.
"Ammavasai, You carry on. There is a doctor appointment this evening".
Scene 2:
1995- Marketing job. I sold an online training course for school students in Madurai. The online company marketed with a catchy slogan "Learn with Monica @ your home and @ your own pace.."
A sixth standard student's father asked me to come to his home.
I pressed the calling bell. The student opened the door and shouted "Daddy!! call the police... ", ran away and hid himself behind a door.
"Thambi, why are you hiding there? Call your daddy."
"Uncle, My father is searching for you to handover you to the police. I am really excited to see police at my home."
Student's father came.
"We have been waiting for Monica for more than a month."
"Sir, this is an online course. Teacher will not come to your home. You have to login to learn from Monica.."
"What are you blabbering? Then why did you give an ad like - Learn with Monica at your home. You got my money but you are not sending the teacher. I will go to court."
"Sir, give me 5 minutes.. I will show you Monica.."
"How? Will you bring her by magic?"
"Sir, believe me.. show me the computer"
"We don't have a computer..."
I felt guilty... I should have educated them before selling the course.
This time conscience took the avatar of my father. "Son!! You should feel guilty for the mistakes done and should not repeat the same.." I quit that job.
Our mistake is like a match stick and we are the matchbox. In my examples, my wife & father made me to ignite the match stick and I resolved by choosing not to drink and by quitting the job. If you follow conscience and resolve issues then and there, you will feel the heat and pain for some time but you will be happy for the rest of your life. But if you ignore conscience, sticks will accumulate one by one and one day all match heads will collectively become a big explosive and you have to face the music.
So please be an empty matchbox and lead a happy life.
----------------------------------------- FULL VERSION
Conscience would learn from everyone who teaches or advice - like our father, mother, brother, sister, wife, teacher, friend or any well-wisher. There is a proverb - Conscience is the dog that can't bite but never stops barking. Sometimes our father would play the role of the dog and sometimes our mother or wife - depending on the situation.
- Keep things at right place - My father.
- Nothing wrong in giving in to your wife - My Mother.
- If you drink again, only my slippers will talk - My Wife.
Scenario 1:
Friday - office closing time. One of my friends called over phone.
"Machi. Can we go to bar tonight?"
"Oh.. Yeah.."
( "Lol.. Lol.."
"Hey, who are you? why are you barking?"
"I am your conscience. Only this January you took a resolution that you will not drink and will do yoga regularly but ironically, you are drinking regularly and doing yoga."
"What? I am doing yoga regularly after drinking?" (Oh... It says how I stumble in the booze..)
"Hey! Shut up... You Idiot... I will do whatever I want"
Now the conscience took the avatar of my wife. Immediately I saw the picture of my wife with a menacing look like Calcutta Kali and with slippers in her hand.)
"Machi... You carry on. There is a doctor appointment this evening".
Our conscience is like a match stick and we are the matchbox. Here my wife struck the match stick against me. I let it ignite and resolved it by changing my mind.
Scenario 2:
1995, the time when PC era started flourishing, there was a little or no awareness about computer or internet in my hometown Madurai. I joined a small company as a computer operator. One day when my working PC stopped working due to viral infection, I informed my MD that I am cleaning my PC with virus scanner. The way he reacted shocked me -
"Senthil, you are very careless.."
"Sir, I didn't do anything wrong."
(MD peeped into the computer room)
"First close the computer with cover"
"Sir, I can't work!"
"No Problem. You first close it and shut the computer room and then we can talk"
"Sir, done sir."
"Ok, now you tell me how the virus got spread to the computer? You got infected with viral fever recently?"
"No Sir. Virus is just a program. Give me one day time, I will clean it"
"No Senthil.. Anything may happen.. I can't take risk. I will call the computer dealer"
"Sir, it's not needed. I can clean with a virus scanner"
"Senthil. Don't argue. I am your MD. This is the computer dealer's address. They are not picking up the phone. You go in person and bring them."
I didn't go to office for next two weeks. Though I explained the dealer that it can be resolved with full virus scan, they informed my MD that they will send an engineer on daily basis for a week and the computer should be under monitoring for one more week. The engineer would examine the computer one hour daily and I should not stay in the office after that one hour and I should go to dealer's office to analyze the root cause and provide update by end of the day daily for two weeks.When I said the dealer that I can't cheat like this, they asked me to go home daily and they will provide an update to MD on daily basis. After two weeks they charged Rs. 2500/- as service charge. You could understand the value of the money from my salary which was Rs.1500/- at that time.
This time my brother had struck the match stick. I imagined how he would thrash me with belt when I tell lie. I let the match stick ignite by quitting the job.
Scenario 3:
Marketing job - I sold an online training course for school students in my hometown, Madurai. At that time, we can easily tell the total number of people having internet connection. The online training company marketed their courses with a catchy slogan "Learn with Monica @ your home and @ your own pace.."
One of the student's fathers who bought the course asked me to come to his home.
"We enrolled our son in your course around one month ago but we are still waiting for the teacher. We want to know when Monica will come?"
"Sir, this is an online course. You have to login with your username and password which was sent through email."
"What are you blabbering? You got my money but you are not sending the teacher. I will go to court."
Then I checked with his son and found out that there was no computer at their home. Then I asked him why you bought this course. He told that his father only bought after seeing the advertisement.
Though I tried to convince his father by asking to send his son to our office nearby, he didn't accept. All he wanted was Monica @ his home.
I felt guilty... I should have educated them properly and checked whether they have a computer and internet connection in the first place before selling the course.
This time my father had struck the match stick. "You should feel guilty for the mistakes done and should not repeat the same.." I let the match stick ignite by quitting the job.
Scenario 4:
School computer science teacher - School Vice Principal, a man of ethics, would do a surprise check in students' school bag for Porn video CDs. The CDs collected would be handed over to me as I am the head of computer department. I have to check the contents and report to the management. One day the Vice Principal came with a CD and asked me to play.
"Sir, the opening clip itself clearly shows its a porn video CD. You can take action against the student."
(He is also sitting with me and looking at the monitor)
"Oh.. is it? can you please skip a little and check?"
(He watched the second clip)
"Sir, could you please go to the middle and check?"
(I lost my patience this time..)
"Sir, the whole CD will have that sort of clips only.."
"We should check correctly. At least you go to the end.. sir.."
(After watching, he came again in the evening with Physical education sir.)
"Sir, please play the CD for PT sir.."
(Now both are watching..)
"Sir, just skip a little as you did this morning.. PT sir, we have to take strick action..watch this!!"
(PT sir is speechless..)
"Sir, show the end also sir"
After that, Vice Principal took the cd with him that evening. Night around 8pm he called me over mobile.
"Sir, how to play the cd in computer? You selected many options this morning.."
"Sir, just insert the cd in the drive.. it will autoplay"
"Sir, Super sir.. it is coming.."
Again a call at 9pm..
"Sir, urgent... how to switch off?"
"In the upper right, you can see a close X button.. click it.."
"Sir.. where? its urgent.. my wife is back from shopping.."
Then he hung up the phone suddenly...
Next day, he met me and informed that he was caught red-handed by his wife.
"Why sir? what happened? I asked you to click close.. right? "
"Sir, I don't know what to do in the tension. I just laid down the monitor horizontally with the screen facing down on the table.. then my wife lifted it and saw the movie running.."
I felt guilty because I used to take a copy of the CD once it comes to me and also copied the same to the male teachers requesting me.
This time my mom had struck the match stick. "Be careful at the workplace... Enemies would always find for opportunities to trap you.." I let the matchstick ignite by neglecting the requests from the teachers to copy CDs.
As I said in the above scenarios, someone would strike the matchstick against you. It is up to you to let it ignite or neglect it and keep the stick with match head in the matchbox. If you let it ignite, you will experience pain for a short while and then you will have peace of mind. Otherwise sticks with match head will get loaded one by one and one day all match heads will collectively become a big explosive and you will find it difficult to fix.
So please let the match stick to strike against you and resolve the things then and there to lead a happy life with clear conscience.
So please be an empty matchbox.
----------------------------------------------------- References
Conscience - the innate sense of right or wrong. The fight between Morality and Immorality.
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