Rules.

I am currently staying at a condominium unit where the caretaker is the owner's sister. I remember talking to her the first time we are negotiating about the rent, and how at the same time, I seemed to love the place at first sight because of its cleanliness (which lacks on the other condominiums I visited). I remember how she honestly blurted out her strictness to house rules and cleanliness, asking me for any comments or complains. I quickly said no witnessing the neatness of the unit due to her strictness, maybe. As three months have already passed, I saw how she worked hard to keep her sister's unit in order, how she got frustrated when someone forgot the house rule for this and that, when my room mate left the unit with her bed linen and foam burnt due to ironing. I got confused why she's letting herself be that frustrated over such things. As I keep on staying there, I understood. I have understand that all us tenants only needs to pay and abide to the house rules but she - she is responsible for the condominium unit, she is the one who keeps it clean, who spends the weekend making sure everything is in the right place. And I understood and I became thankful for her. Thinking about rules in the scope of our community, I think that rules are there for its citizens' welfare. We obey rules not because we are afraid to be punished; we obey them because we fully know its use and understands as a citizen that its for the welfare of the community. Hence, before we obey a rule just for the sake that someone has slapped it to our face or has given the punishment for not abiding to it, we must first understand it, why was it made as a rule, we must inquire and criticize before we obey.