Monday, April 12, 2010

Hypocrisy

I was talking last week on the way people react to some of the troublesome issues in life by not reacting in the way they are supposed to just because they cannot step on someones toes. To make the other person feel nice we sometimes keep our mouth shut and let the person railroad you.
We become the greatest hypocrites in life by pandering to that person and making him or her feel great. But isn't it a lie?
Why can't we just let it be and give the person the truth about the matter?
Why can't we just download the sad, bad or whatever feelings we have and flush it down once and for all?
Here we are afraid that it may lead to something which we may not be able to face or bear. Maybe it will turn into an ego issue or just another fight on hands.
It is the fear of the unknown that makes us that way.
We have been afraid of it since we were small when our parents have asked us whom do we like better-the mother or the father?
We have always been very diplomatic and said that both of them are dear to us!
We have learnt to be a hypocrites since childhood.
So there is something that we feel about today and still cannot express since we may jeopardize the relationship with the loved ones.
What hypocrites we have turned into,eh?
Just be yourself and express the hidden feelings once to that person and see what happens!
Wow, won't we be taking a great risk???
Life sucks, doesn't it, when you cannot even tell your wife or girlfriend that she needs to apply some deo or go to the gym regularly....or whatever it is that makes you keep your trap shut!!
C'mon man just blurt it out, why are you a coward?
Hey there, I know you won't do it but would suffer just like another martyr....
Long live Gandhiji ,Jesus and King!!!

3 comments:

  1. Hardhitting, hmmmm. Will certainly do it, when i find the courage to do it:--)))))

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  2. Agreed. Thinking aloud: What I sometimes find to more depressing is when we sometimes blurt things out but later regret it - because of the consequences! Our effort to maintain calm and peace while suffering internally is stupid or profound?

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  3. Nimmy, not at all. See when Krsna had to fight, didn't he and when He had to run away from battle field he did that too. Just know that you should do what is felt right by you at that moment. Anyway no one knows the future so why bother so much about it. Living in the here and now is far more important than bothering about the future. Those who are your friends may turn foe and foes as friends. Thats destiny, right?

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