How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
Recognizing the right thing to do and making the good thing are two totally different matters. Even if we learn what to do, we may miss the willingness and bravery to really do do so because we fear the retaliation, business failure and so forth. Still planning, expectation and practice can enable us to manage society pressures and act on values.
It takes courage-moral courage and the spirit of one's convictions to spend the moment and mind looking for the most moral good solution rather than deciding for the easiest right answer. The danger of not rising to the challenge to be morally courageous at we do is seldom about our personal well-being.
Therefore, do not let your fear eat away your courage to have you not doing the right actions. Be brave, be strong.
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