The Bathroom and the Human Nature

This is a story of something I witnessed going on in the apartment I share with 3 other roommates. I think it applies to everyday life of almost every person...

When we moved in, we cleaned everything in our apartment, including the bathroom and our shower. Everything was squeaky clean and so all of us felt free not to use any shower shoes in our shower. Why should we, if it was so clean?

Now, some of my roommates had shampoos and soaps on the floor of our shower. As days went by, a mold began to form underneath these containers .

Suddenly, a couple days ago, I noticed that someone had removed all of their shampoo and soap containers from the showers floor. This is when I actually saw the mold and it didn't look very good. A pair of flip flops was chilling next to the shower meaning that one of the girls began using them to wear in the shower now. Things went without change for a couple more days... moldy shower floor, flip flops next to it, all shampoo and soap containers removed...

Did you notice anything? Any questions?

My question was this: Why didn't the person who removed the containers from the shower clean their 'mess' (i.e. the shower floor)? Why couldn't someone take those 2 minutes to put things into their original state?

What will happen if no one ever cleans the floor? The mold will grow, we will all star wearing shoes to shower, the shower will develop this moldy smell to it... Is this really where we want to end up?

And this is not where things end... numerous other examples pop up in my head when people try to protect themselves from the mess they made rather than try to clean it up...

...like ...

...living as far as we can from the city dumpster instead of recycling our waste

... giving a professor bad ratings because his exams were too hard instead of admitting that we should have studied more

...the relationships we have with others

...denying our sins instead of asking for forgiveness

And you know where this will end? Things will get moldy, they will be disgusting to us, and we will have to find even more protection from them and move further away. Unless we clean up our mess, it won't go away. It is one thing to pray for the world, or to pray for the shower to be clean (and don't take me wrong - I love prayer and believe in its importance), but things won't change unless we actually get out of our comfort zone and make an effort.