We can live clean lives H-METRO
The Covid-19 induced lockdown has lasted so long and led to the exposure of so much domestic violence and fornication.
Not so long ago we carried a story headlined “Lockdown exposes cheating wife” which was about a woman who was allegedly cheating on her husband.
While we have had a few similar cases, in the majority of cases it is the other way round.
Adultery has been the cause of many a great man’s downfall. The list of such men grows from as old a time as biblical era — remember David and his lust for another man’s wife — up to present day leaders like United States of America president, Bill Clinton.
Many that have cast their eyes to another woman other than their wife have regretted that glance all their lives.
Life does not give second chances when it comes to most sexual errors. Through sex, many have lost their families, loved ones, virginity, health (having fallen prey to HIV/Aids), respect and dignity. And in almost all the cases, the victims can never return to their former state in this lifetime.
Shakespeare wrote that “the evil that men do lives after them” and when it comes to sexual evil, this statement is amazingly true.
So — because life is too short to learn from your own mistakes — all men, great and small, must take lessons from men who lost all they had to be worthy of the title “man” because of one or a few moments of weakness — usually with people they do not even love.
Public figures in particular should know that what they do can have an impact on not only their lives and their families’ but society as a whole.
They should realize that they are role models and what they would have done without shame before they were popular figures in society, they can no longer do if they don’t want the country to know.
The press — with the same enthusiasm that it publishes their good deeds — will report on their weaknesses because the media is mandated to tell the whole truth about how they are living their lives.
The involved ladies, on the other hand, are as much to blame when they have sexual relations with men that they know are married to another of their counterparts. If all women — from domestic workers to prominent ladies in society — start respecting marriage and make it a point not to interfere with married men, they would not cause their fellows the heartache that adultery brings to them.
It takes two to tango in adultery and most fornication issues and the blame should — most of the times — go to both parties. So it is also important for ladies to stop entertaining fornicators and live clean patient lives.