IT IS MY LIFE.

While going through a friend profile on facebook, I stumbled on the status "What anybody does is their business. When she has 7 lovers, it is her body. When he takes alcohol, it is his life. Why don't you leave them alone?" l replied, "My friend, even though l disapprove, l will compromise and accept what you are saying that it is none of my business. If you can guarantee that when someone takes alcohol, and when they get behind the wheel of a car and have an accident, the only thing they will ever hit is a tree, l will compromise. But if you cannot guarantee that when they take alcohol and have an accident, then you or your children or l or my children could be dead under the wheels, you better believe it is my business. l have to get this person off the road."


This one phrase, "It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and I'm sure that was not the intent.

These people forget that we don't live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly.

Though you have every right and privilege to live your life but not to affect the other party. It can only be your life, if others are not affected negatively.