adminBeniah Takunda Munengwa University of Zimbabwe
You know, in this generation where evil is quickly surpassing morality, there’s now a tendency of getting ashamed of shunning away evil than morality. Most men now feel inferior if they fail to have several women fight for them, if a boy has got one girlfriend or hasn’t bedded a significant number of women before or in marriage.
This is for the mere fact of wanting to get the much needed social respect from fellow peers, obviously not taking into cognisance the grave implications of what can come out of these acts. I don’t know of the women side for I have got little experience in that field.
After all the above have been said and done, I now move forward to where my thrust of the story is going to be. I will start by exposing my motivations arising to this article. Just about a week and a half ago, when I was at my university’s library, I picked up a wallet with nineteen United States of America dollars, MasterCards, the National Identity card among other confidential particulars.
Owing to my moral upbringing which I credit to my parents and maybe the church I used to visit, I then decided that I had better own up by submitting the wallet to the information desk. After that, the owner was called and I then heard later that he recovered all what belonged to him. This whole process was against my second instinctive thought that I had to take the money, leave the wallet where it could be found and then use the money to fulfill my very selfish objectives.
But it was the feeling of being afraid to be haunted by that money, either directly or otherwise that added up to the forces that made me not to think twice about it. I then texted my close friends informing them about the incident and not so much to my surprise, most of them scolded me, furiously reminding me what we had lost and not recovered in this journey of life.
To my surprise, the owner of the belongings I picked never even bothered to call me and say a mere thank you. He probably just smiled and varnished. My mindset then got divided, I surely could not take the guts to blame my angry friends.
They asked me, “if you were to pick-up a briefcase full of money that reaches the six figure height would you give it back to the government? Then the other said, do you send back coal to Hwange? Do you think that the ancestors give twice? The most interesting one was a flashback incident in which my other friend told me of a story of a handyman who picked up money in the employer’s car whilst cleaning it and then gave back the money to the employer and to his surprise, instead of receiving a mere thank you, he was told, with this attitude friend, you will never get rich.’
Combining this, and my interlude to this story, I then ask you, which act should take precedence over the other, evil or morality in this capitalist world when in actual fact if you do not deflower whilst still a boy, you are more than guaranteed that you shall marry those already deflowered? Good over evil, should we continue to say?
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