A toilet should be ordinary.

You should be able to leave home, move through public life and trust that somewhere nearby there is a clean, private place where your body can relieve itself in dignity.

Imagine if that were not true.

Imagine spending every day calculating where you could go privately, safely and comfortably.

Imagine having to hide, hold yourself, search, worry or expose your body because the world had not prepared for one of the most predictable facts of human life.

That would be undignified.

It would also be deeply undelightful.

Human beings have built towers, weapons, financial systems, airports and machines capable of leaving the planet.

But billions of people still cannot depend upon a dignified toilet.

The Earth is a badly organized house

To World Ruler Sher, the Earth is one house.

It is beautiful.

It is valuable.

It contains food, water, land, intelligence, talent, materials and tremendous possibility.

But right now, it is a messy and badly organized house.

Some parts of the house overflow with goods while others lack the basics.

Useful things are produced and wasted.

People go hungry beside abundance.

Families are exhausted.

Children are bored.

Older people become isolated.

Public places are organized around spending rather than living.

The body is expected to function inside conditions that were never thoughtfully prepared for it.

The mind is expected to remain lively while surrounded by repetition, fear, pressure and ugliness.

Then people are blamed when they become tired, dulled or miserable.

Misery has a measurable cost

People often speak as though delight were frivolous.

Beauty is treated as extra.

Rest is treated as laziness.

Play is treated as childish.

Music, laughter, discovery and family time are treated as rewards that must be earned after the serious work is finished.

But what is the cost of the opposite of delight?

The cost is not merely emotional.

This does not mean that music, orchards or pleasant surroundings alone cure mental illness.

It means misery is not free.

Poorly organized human life produces real consequences for bodies, minds, families and entire civilizations.

Delight is part of proper organization

A toilet is not considered frivolous because the body predictably needs one.

Food is not frivolous because the body predictably needs nourishment.

Water is not frivolous because the body must drink and wash.

So why should the needs of the mind be treated as decoration?

A civilization prepared for human life should anticipate those needs too.

Not as luxury.

Not as a reward for the rich.

Not as entertainment purchased after exhaustion.

Eat, drink and be merry

“Eat, drink and be merry” does not mean become careless, wasteful or useless.

It means nourish the body.

Keep the mind awake.

Then rise and continue living.

Fruit must still be grown.

Food must still be prepared.

Children must still be cared for.

Buildings must still be maintained.

Systems must still function.