How Clean is Cleanliness?

How do you measure or see a clean surrounding? Is it about cleaning first the dirt of yourself before trying to clean the surrounding? I guess that would lead to perfect cleanliness.

My deep and peaceful sleep broke when a strong continuous knocking of our steel gate happened on a beautiful and sunny Saturday. I was disturbed but luckily got back to sleep after. I was awakened again with women shouting with each other. I easily recognized one of the voices and it was my mother. I just stayed on the bed as if nothing happened and listened to their talk. The very small matter that they were discussing was about our plants. It was a battle between my mother and the two officers of our block organization. The officers and the members had a meeting and agreed to have a drive for cleanliness. No one in the family attended the meeting. So they wanted to clear the plants that we had outside our house which were only inches away from the gutter. The officers wanted to throw the plants because they see it as a big problem especially that it consumed space which is so little giving a hard time for those vehicles to pass by according to them. For me, that was a stupid reason because would you exchange your plant which gives fresh oxygen over those vehicles emitting unhealthy gases? It is okay to remove our plants if we think it does not serve a purpose. But for the family, we also see it as a way to decorate our slowly rusting gates aside from giving off oxygen.

The battle did not stop right there. The officers said something offensive against my mother and luckily I was also involved. An officer said that my mother was a bit of stupid and the other officer said that I am like my mother which she accused me of posting inappropriate things on Facebook. I just admire my mother for not saying anything bad against them though she knew how foul their personalities were. It came into my mind that we were not friends with that ugly woman on Facebook and not even her sons. If posting rude statuses was her issue, will that be a problem? I guess it will not because Facebook keeps on asking everyone of us about what's on our mind. If liking topless pictures of men is her concern, well it will not be a problem. It is part of how I amuse myself as gay. Those things mentioned were not inappropriate because if Facebook sees that it was, then I should have been banned for a long time. Duhh. Loser.

The so-called officers. Bastards!

 The drive for cleaning the surrounding was not really their main purpose. It was just a pre-requisite of their plan which is to paint every gutter in the place with different colors in order for visitors to easily know which street and block they are supposed to go. For me, there is no need for that because visitors have their mouth which can be used for asking unless if they are mute. I assume they just want to take advantage of the money that they can get out of the project. They were trying to oppose Jessie J's song lyrics, "It's not about the money money money".

That morning, we felt like we were demolished and our right was compromised. Pursuing self-interest and love for money is their bottom line. Well, everything starts with small matters and eventually gets bigger and bigger - corruption.