Your bad behaviour now may affect you and be remembered forever, even on your burial ceremony when everyone chants ‘good’ about your dead body.
Think of the worst of people; the known serial robbers, rapists, drug traffickers, and arsonists; when they die, words like “he was a committed Christian” on their burial ceremonies are common, even if all mourners know that the deceased would only appear in church on Christmas day.

In one of Uganda’s Universities, a girl who seemed to be emerging from a planet slightly higher than earth proved her impatience, arrogance and pride when she wanted things to be worked her way during a lunch break.
She wanted to be first than her legitimate last, observed by her ‘snail-like walk’ amidst her colleagues` ‘fast pace-hunger is killing me rush’ to the Dinning Hall.
Pointing her wholly decorated fingers (all rounded with metallic, silver, gold- cotted and plastic rings) at students who had patiently waited to be served lunch, she minded not her language, spilling the unthinkable sounding words into the ears of everybody.
Words like “bitch” and other dirties proved no strangers in her mouth. To many around her, she was uncouth and unfit in society. She lost many friends and potential friends on that day, because they could not imagine tolerating her behaviour.
The grand loss came when she left the place with rage shown all over her beautiful but now turned, ugly face, leaving everyone chanting victory for a minus added to the long list of hungry students waiting to be served lunch.
For the next two semesters at campus and even after, she was isolated because of that one mistake she had made in a day.
One student proved that he could not take such a person for a wife, or even trust her with a job if he was a boss some where.
“I cannot invite her to a party because she may embarrass me amidst many people” another one said.
Besides her bad behaviour and the assumed punishment she would receive from her colleagues, if this girl were to die, none of her colleagues would ever mention that Dinning Hall incidence to anyone on her burial ceremony.
She would be assured of the ‘good girl’ from each of her colleagues, but deep in the inside of them, the DH incidence would be as new as fresh tomatoes.

Ochwo is an intern with The Standard