What could I do?

What could I do? Hapless-Helpless Humans. 

If learning morals was the guarantee of putting in practice what was learned, we would have saints inhabiting this planet. That was the purpose was learning in the first place, isn't it?

The first thing we were made to sing in the school assembly was 

"He Prabhu Anand data gyan hamko deejiye"( God! of Bliss, bestow knowledge upon us). 

Another one was 

"wah shakti hame do dayanidhe kartavya marg par dat jayen" (Give us the strength, O!! God of Kindness, we may stand on the path of duty). 

The prayers went on praying for truthfulness, good behavior, free from sins, and all those virtues that all humans aspire to. Similar prayers might have been sung in schools all over India. The prayers were a daily routine up to high school as far as I remember. More than 10 years of praying.

Since then most of us have read volumes of the material of these virtues and every day we are flooded with still more on social media. If that was not enough we are surrounded by god-men and god women, spiritual leaders, not forgetting our daily trips to the places of worship.

How come that learning has not been a part of our practice? Why could we not practice what we learned?

Neither the prayer nor the subsequent learning could make us good human beings. 

There is no clear answer. Maybe we were not meant to be good human beings in the first place. Those who composed the prayer and penned subsequent learning material did so after a lot of experience and introspection. 

If so, they must have done so after crossing the prime of life and realized the mistakes they committed and wanted to tell the young generation or anybody who cared to read or listen and not to commit similar mistakes. 

On the hind side, maybe I am writing this piece as I too have crossed the prime.  

The fact is we all are good people. Circumstances make us bad. And this is a good excuse, an escape route. 

"What could I do?"- becomes the buzzword.