Cleanliness has a good effect on mental health and our surroundings, and lack of cleanliness will have a bad effect. It’s a philosophy that a clear mind comes from keeping clean and clear surroundings.
It’s our national trend that we create a mess wherever we go, to parks, weddings, etc. because we never learn to take it as a personal responsibility to keep clean our surroundings.
In Japan, it’s a practice they train their kids at schools to clean their mess themselves. At the end of the day, students must clean their classrooms and this tradition trains them so well that even after their schools during their practical lives they follow the same pattern and clean their mess if we go in the streets of japan we can see this trend’s outcomes.
We can also do this by simply following the same strategy that the Japanese follow. If kids will follow this pattern during their ten years of their school life. Cleaning their environment will become a built-in habit in them. If we start working on this strategy sooner Pakistan’s roads and streets will be clean as Japan’s roads and streets.
Naheed Jahan, Islamabad
