Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Arrival of 'The Animal Diaries'


Given my love for animals (Don't laugh if you've seen a plate of chicken in front of me one time too many. It could be my neighbour's!) and my theory on how we're evolving backwards or, not at all, I'm going to start a series called "The Animal Diaries".
It is to prove that simplicity still has the upper hand and that in some things Man has evolved for no good. It's time we take a step back and learn a few things from our fellow inhabitants.

Chapter 1: CatClowder.

I read somewhere the other day, that cats live their life with no care about the world. Everything is like it is. Blue is Blue. White is White and Love is Love. In fact, even Hate is Hate.
Simple. And I couldn't help but envy the blatancy in their nature.
Because, for me. White is sometimes Blue, Blue is sometimes Red, Red maybe Yellow, Green or Purple and Love is very often Hate.
So you can imagine how unnecessarily convoluted my life is when love can just be love and hate can just be hate.
And I can just be me.
I'm getting nowhere with this.
This is nothing but a theory to convince myself that not every red that is blue is living a hypocrisy.
Sometimes the hypocrisy is just arising out of curiosity.
And unlike that in the case of a cat, it is not killing me.
Yet again though, for the cat;
Blue is Blue. White is White and Love....is always only Love.



Cat-tip: Some things are only meant to be the way they're meant to be.

Monday, March 15, 2010

iJudge


From my observation in recent times, I have noticed why every one's perception about you as a person is different. Leaving aside a few really close friends who've been with you through thick and thin or probably have been associated with you long enough to have seen your multifaceted nature, nobody can be precisely correct about the most striking feature of your personality.
Everyone of us has a varied range of emotions and traits and we employ them differently in different situations.
What others get to see of you in any one particular situation which may or may not have been repetitive is what they base their judgement on. It doesn't necessarily mean that what they see is the most dominant trait of your personality.

I played a game in class recently where we wrote the first thing that struck us about a person, Mr.A.
Now shockingly, the first thing that struck us all about this one Mr. A was a very demeaning trait. Naturally, you don't want to be remembered for being one of the worst.
So Mr. A got defensive about his feedback.
The whole point of the game was constructive criticism and no matter how much you deny it to the outside world, if you have a conscience and your honest to yourself, you'll know exactly why you've been associated with that trait. Because somewhere deep down, you know, you just know, that you've been like that around people. You chose to overlook the fact however, that people are cautious and perceptive and judgemental and that someday it is going to backfire. And so, your ego disallows you to agree with it.
What is the point of criticism then?
Mr. A as a result refuses to see the beneficial side of the game and is hell bent on investigating who among his peers has been so ' HYPOCRITICAL '.

My advice: Just cut the crap and repair yourself.

Nobody can alter their perception of your true character, till you, yourself, choose to do so.