Our 9-year-old grandson TeghVir Singh came to spend time with us.

Emerging from the bathroom, he asked me, "Dadu, why do you keep books in the bathroom?"
I replied, "Because I like to read when I sit on the pot."
"Did you not teach us that we should respect knowledge and our books?"
"Yes"
"Do you think that keeping books in the same place where you go to do poopoo, is respectful?" Tegh queried.

That caught me off guard. I thought for a moment how to justify my actions, but in the face of such a simple yet powerful truth, I grudgingly agreed. Indeed it was disrespectful.

I went into all the bathrooms in the house and removed all the books.
It is amazing, the power of the truth. We are often so oblivious to the obvious. Children and the innocent can see things with fresh perspectives that we adults, 'experts' and 'professionals' seem to have lost.

I thought about the question, 'Why is it that men spend so much time in the bathroom?'
It seems to be a practical getaway where we can withdraw to find solitude. The need to get away from everyone else and have quiet moments without the likelyhood of being disturbed.

A shower, taking a bath and sitting on the pot, while in the bathroom seems excellent places for thinking and decision-making.
We all need to be alone for some time during the day. We need not have a reason for this desire to be alone. It is important to take off time to think nothing nor to do anything, in fact just to be.

Males enter into this 'think nothing, do nothing' mode, more often than females. Women find this as with other behavioural characteristics of males strange and unfathomable. Inexplicable it may be but that is the reality.

This time alone or what some call 'me-time' is essential to refresh and recharge us.
But one thing is for sure, I am not going to keep books in the bathroom.

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