The loose morals obsession

People are obsessed about character. Its one thing that everyone, irrespective of age, gender or size love to talk about. Everyone wants to give their opinion. Valuable or not. Talk about unity. It’s the only binding emotion in the world. Forget all that you have learnt about love and happiness being the universal language. Its gossip I tell you. And if you’ve heard that women gossip more than men, I’m sorry to say you’ve been misguided. It’s a rumour. Men gossip even more. Shamelessly, ruthlessly, and quite happily, in fact. I’ve heard it and seen it. Anyway back to character assassination, its ubiquitous. It’s a commonplace trait, which goes hand in hand with breathing. Some people even have dreams about mindless senseless gossip. You see a girl smile a wee bit too widely, she has loose morals, I say! Its funny, though how men and women are so blatantly judged by their sleeping patterns. And you don’t even have to be sleeping with someone either randomly or regularly to have people talking about it. It might have just been a single dinner, or a walk, or just about anything. And don’t even get me started on women who drink. Oh my, what is she thinking? Women who drink automatically fall one step closer to women with loose morals. Whether they are any better is still debated widely and is a matter of public concern, somehow. The way they make it sound, one feels that the moment you touch alcohol, its akin to losing your virginity, and if it becomes a habit, then you’re a slut. She’s corrupted, they like to say. Every other infallible nature that she has fades into oblivion. Forget that she maybe a skilled surgeon, or a brilliant lawyer, or an excellent teacher, she is still the slut and the whore she is. What sort of a world do we live in? Its beyond contempt. Archaic , misguided, misanthropic logic.
Someone told me once that he believed that a person with loose morals would be born as a tree in the next life. I was confused. First of all, whats wrong in being a tree? I thought it was wonderful. A tall evergreen shade loking up into the sun and the sky. Ablove everyone and everything else. Secondly do you mean to degrade all the current trees living in the world? Those lovely green creatures that give us food, flower, fruits, wood, shade and many other things. Where would we be without their scenic and asthetic presence in this otherwise dull drab and judgemental world? Atleast coconut trees don’t judge palm trees and vice versa. And lastly, imagine the ego, the colossal hubris that this person would have had while saying such a thing. What is he proud of? What are his accomplishments? Does it compare anywhere with the tree’s? Believing that our life is guided by the actions of a previous one, over which we have no control, how is that any better than wanting to enjoy the current life with as much energy, joy, and abandonment as possible? If that’s the way she wants to live her life, who are you to judge? Loose morals, my ass. Right or wrong, its all relative anyway. There’s nothing absolute about it. Even a murderer gets his defence lawyer. There is only one life that we get to live, only one that we can remember about, why spend that life walking tiptoe on a tight rope, paranoid that our actions now will reflect on later lives? We wouldn’t know, would we? Atleast there is some comfort in not knowing. We need to grow up, start thinking outside what happens inside someone else’s pants and start looking at what other things they may be good at. Its not always all about sex, you know. Or alcohol, for that matter.