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Wake Up from Slumber and Illegalize the Wickedly Lucrative Business of Trading Moral Values

It feels good to lounge in a comfort zone especially when you know the environment out there is hostile, stormy and everything uncomfortable. You close your eyes and pretend all is well forgetting the storm is bound to catch up with you sooner or later.
Sadly, that’s what the present society has become. 
We all fold our arms hoping things will get better forgetting someone has got to work on them for them to get better. Unfortunately, our lack of responsibility towards maintaining the moral fabric of our society has turned us into a reactive society. We have failed to realize that withdrawing from problems does not prevent them from charging on. We leave problems to balloon until they can’t contain themselves, only to run helter-skelter, burning midnight oil looking for counter solutions when they burst out of control. 
For instance, the media is littered with campaigns on contraceptives and STI protection methods. And who is the target of these campaigns? Anyone who understands the meaning of the terminologies involved. People! Should we even get there? What happened to the good old teachings of purity before and in marriage? 
"But times have changed," you argue. Yes, times have changed but fundamental principles of life haven't. Allow me to explain that life is a gift from God. And just like any other gadget leaves the manufacturer’s warehouse with a how-to-use manual; life too has a guide on how to live it. Some of the behaviors being championed are contrary to the how-to manual. Chastity lessons have been archived and people are busy reacting to immorality menace (to avert deadly consequences) using ‘pain-killer’ methods forgetting one day the soul will report back to the source. To cut my long story short – the message I’m trying to pass across is ‘change of times does not modify the manual (values)’. Even to the end of the earth rules regarding how-to-live-life will still be the same. So instead of struggling to fashion your own *values* and watch society decay to naught, why don’t you modernize yourself within the limits set by the author of life?
Proverbs talks of “a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of arms to rest and poverty will strike you like an armed robber.” But hey society, don’t you think a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of arms on matters moral values, will cause moral decay to strike you like an armed robber?” I know there is nothing to think about here because you’ve already witnessed it. 
Both you and I can do something to prevent more damage and bequeath future generations a morally sound society. There is no justification for failing to model morality for upcoming generations. May I just remind you that you met a morally sound society because someone did something about it. I’m sure you don’t want to be labeled a failure but mark you, if this generation fails to stand up and instill moral values in the young ones, history will judge you harshly. Before we even think of mounting campaigns to proactively champion morality, do something. Society is you. Be proactive. Let a child know what is right and wrong from a tender age, encourage them to stand for and stick to their beliefs, or better still model for them. 
I conclude by a proverb that says, “Instruct children in the way they should go and when they’re old they’ll not depart from it.” We can avert moral evils by instilling sound moral teachings in our youths and save the society from moral decadence.
Stop Being Reactive Start Being Proactive

Reference:
Holy Bible
Proverbs 6:10-11/ Proverbs 24:33-34
Proverbs 22:6
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