Life Skills & Value Education – CLASS-V – UNIT- 3 Cleanliness and Orderliness

Dusty Genie

Once upon a time, there was a genie who lived in a magic lamp. Like any other genie, he would come out on rubbing the lamp and fulfill the wishes. But this genie was a little strange than other ones.

Whenever someone rubbed the magic lamp, he would come out with a puff of dust

and say, “What is your wish?” The dust would leave his clothes dirty and his face stained. On asking for an object of wish, a number of random objects would appear stumbling out of his lamp onto the floor. “Keep this with you. It stinks! I don’t want it,” said people on receiving their desired wish covered in dirt.

Eventually, no one wished to use it. Rubbing it would spoil people’s hand, so nobody would even touch it. It was thrown in a dark corner. The genie became sad and depressed. One day a lonely boy heard someone crying. He went to the dark corner from where the voice was coming. He saw the lamp and took it in his hands. He rubbed it. The genie appeared, all shabby. He was crying.

“Why are you crying? You are a genie. You have everything.” The boy asked him.

The genie narrated the whole story to the boy. Later, genies said, “Anyway, leave my story. After a long time someone has rubbed my lamp. Tell me your wish.”

“I want to visit your lamp and spend some time with you inside the lamp, expressed the boy as his wish.

Genie granted him the wish. When the boy entered the lamp, he quickly learned what the problem with genie was. “You are so untidy. Your things are all over the place. Do you ever dust or clean your lamp?” asked the boy to the genie.

“I have to keep all sorts of things from books to jewels to camels in this small place. Moreover, I am always busy fulfilling others’ desires. I never get time to clean this place,” told the genie.

The boy remembered his mother’s advice that to do your work properly, you need to keep your things in order. And to fulfill your duties, you need to be healthy, for which you need to maintain cleanliness.

“Hmm! don’t worry. I will help you clean this place. But promise me you will maintain that orderliness and cleanliness forever,” said the boy to genie.

“I promise! Please help me!” the genie quickly agreed to the boy.

Over next few days, the boy helped genie arrange all the things in proper order. Both of them cleaned the place very well. Now it looked neat and gleaming. “Thank you so much. I will always keep my promise,” said the genie to the boy. Now genie had no problem in searching anything. He would take out time and clean his lamp regularly. He himself looked clean and tidy too. Genie began to be admired by the people. He learned the importance of tidiness and orderliness.

LET US UNDERSTAND

Do you like to sit with a person who is dirty and shabby? Do you like to stand in a place surrounded by garbage? Would anyone like to talk to you, if you look untidy? Would anyone like to visit your home, if it is untidy?

The answer would be ‘NO’. We all like only clean places, clean things and clean people.

• No one wanted to rub the magical lamp as the lamp was dirty. Even the genie looked shabby.

We should keep our surroundings neat and clean all the time. Cleanliness is necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle and good standard of living. No one likes to deal with a filthy person. A person should keep himself clean and well-dressed all the time. A person with clean habits creates a good impression on others. It usually reflects a clean character also.

Remember: Stay clean to attract friends, not flies.

When the boy entered the genie’s lamp, he saw that all the things were scattered in his lamp. It was the reason that genie could not find anything easily.

We should always put our things where they belong to. It makes easy to maintain cleanliness as well as orderliness. It also makes us efficient at our work.

After cleaning the lamp and arranging the things in order, it became easy for genie to find things. It made him popular among the people. Now he was no more sad and disappointed.

Cleanliness improves our confidence level and self-respect. It keeps us happy. It makes us proud and popular in society. It makes us healthy in every aspect like physical, mental and social. It makes our future bright.

Remember: Cleanliness reflects a clean character.

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