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Guardian of the Flies by Nassim Ismaila

The word 'guardian' has a broader definition than to just 'watch over', the word and the concept behind 'guardian' encompasses broadly 'stewardship' that is to say a person that has been giving full right and authority over the property and affairs of another, this then means that a steward has the full right as the owner to take care, watch over, rule over and direct as the case maybe the property of the one that handed the responsibility over to them.

A steward or guardian should then be a trusted hand to his master so much that the master has in him, no doubt that the task of guardianship handed over will be carried out to the fullest capability as he the master would do to his property or affairs, if it so happens that the guardian falls short of his masters trust, an equal resulting punishment should be metered out on the guardian for not equaling the expectations of the master. 

There is here the story of a father who loved his son deeply, provided all for his son and guided his son on right and wrong diligently how a mother hen would guard her eggs or her hatched chicks from rats and the claws of an eagle respectively, this father who's son was made a little differently from him in appearance, had a servant whom he trusted so much and doubted not the abilities of his servant in doing what he would to his son as regards training and up bringing. He (the father) one day had to travel on the setteling of some affairs, and he handed the responsibility of the upbringing of his son to his servant who in turn now became a steward, until he, the father, returned after a while. 

If on returning the father finds his son to be less than his expectations in the affair of the upbringing of his son, should it not then mean that the guardian has failed in his duties of stewardship?
Who then faces the long rod and staff of discipline by the father, the guardian or the son? 
Would the father be considered a very perfect father for handing over the affair and responsibility of the upbringing of his seed to another, wether they meet up to his threshold of 'perfection' in the task of raising up his son or not?.

To conclude our story, the father was disappointed to see that his son had gone astray in certain avenues in his life, he then decided that the son was to blame for not deciding what he should have chosen as right or wrong in those avenues, he then punished the son, and the guardian who was the splitting image of 'perfection' as regards his abilities in dealing the affairs of his master was free of any moral guilt in the failing of his duties. 

The success of any venture is measured by the level of result, positively or negatively, that has been achieved by the one who takes on the venture, separating the line between failure and success then is evaluation of the degree of positivity or negetivity on the 'success continuum' with the weight tipping to either the 'success' or 'failure' parallel.

If a guardian falls below tipping the weight on to the 'success' parallel on the continuum he/she is deemed a failure and as such should receive the reward of a failure, the punishment now being, for his failure to accomplish the task entrusted on him, to be carried out by his master whom he has short supplied his trust and abilities in, if however the master decides, for some reason, to turn a blind eye to his stewards short comings, the one whom the stewardship of the guardian was intrusted to, has the right to measure out his own judgment and or punishment upon the guardian as the case may be, his argument being, that the short-coming (failure) of the guardian is not by any calcualtive result his fault, but the fault of the guardian, in his inability to reach the expectation of his master. 

It is only fair to say here that, the punishment of the short comings of one, should not be shared with another for the sole reason that the one who was at first the guardian should have known of his own inability to measure up to the standard of his master and not drag the unknowing innocence of the one who was intrusted into his care into the punishment of his resulting 'failure' in carrying out his duties. 

It should be stated here, that it should not be held against the flies when they perch on meat left un-guarded by the guardian whom the butcher entrusted the duty of swatting.




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