Cheats! We, the mortals, the supreme beings of the creation are cheats. We reveal different faces to different people at different times. We are the most tactful sinner in the planet. Born with innocence, we gradually learn all the vices mush easily and justify that they are virtues. Education has to be blamed because it gives man the power to think and substantiate.
We lie to our parents when they doubt us. We try to cover up the wrong done by us and if need be, we even shift the blame to somebody else just to escape from being caught. In other words, we prepare ourselves to do all that it takes to prove us innocent even if we are actually guilty.
We are not true to anybody. We curse our uncles and aunts from within but act as though we love them. We totally agree with them in a conversation but immediately after, we ridicule them behind their back. Here again, we lack the guts to show where and how we differ but just want to give them a picture that we are the ‘bestest’ person on the earth.
We are sometimes so foolish to that extent that we think that we are perfect and begin our campaign in gossiping about others. We make fun of our siblings, our room mates, our neigbours and many others but get offended when we hear a true remark about us. Here, we indicate supremacy over others and also sensitivity to reality.
We take the least effort in studying but we expect good marks. We later brag about our wisdom if we get through the examination by chance. At the same time, we even grow jealous over others who have scored better than us forgetting for a moment that our marks were obtained by luck and not out of hard work! Outrageous!!! Isn’t it?
We get into a job by hook or by crook but are not prepared to co-operate with our colleagues or management with what they actually require. We need a decent job with a very reasonable pay and a life filled with luxury. Here, we prove that we want to fool around many to earn some bucks.
We want to portray ourselves as very clean men and women when in love. We shake our heads vigorously to all that the other person has to say and disagree at every point once we get married. This proves that we will do anything to get a thing done and once done, we begin to act in a different way.
We respect our parents only as long as their bank balances are heavy. Once the money gets exhausted, the respect also proportionately decreases. The need to portray ourselves as a ‘good child’ doesn’t arise anymore once we understand that they can no longer help us. How selfish are we!! Do we realize that it is to the same parents that we once tried to show a ‘good’ image of ourselves?
On the other hand we want our children to be the best child on earth. We explain to them in front of our parents what we were denied as a child and what they are enjoying. Here, we want to establish that we are the best category of parents who expose our children to many things by thus insulting our own parents who would have taken all the pains in the world to bring us up without cribbing as we do now to bring up our kids.
We teach our children to be honest. Are we exempted from being honest? Here, we think that certain rules are not for us. We think that we are in an elevated position than many others. Don’t we realize the mistake done by us as we commit them? On what grounds are we justifying our stance?
We hang around with friends and lie to our spouse telling that we are busy in a meeting. That way we cheat our spouse too. Who else is spared? None actually!
What are we actually trying to do? When will we be ourselves? To whom will we show our real nature? Why are we fooling around everybody? Why are we trying to show a better picture of ourselves when we are actually not? We are good at one stage to one person and we are bad at a later date to that same person. We are so passionate towards one person at one time and we cheat the same person at a later time. We smile at one person at one time and grow envious at the same person at a later time. What is wrong with us? When will we understand that we are not what we display to others? When will we live true to ourselves? When will we stop lying and be honest? Will it ever happen?
5 comments:
It will continue to happen till we realise on our own - 'Satyam eva jayate'.
Hey Latha, seemingly written with frustration. I completely DO NOT agree. Cheating/lying/dishonesty in the literal sense is wrong and there are no two ways about it. Lets understand that sometimes it is a imperative need to do it (not a compulsive need).
Even god is not exempt to it, to uphold what is right at times it has to be done !! Maybe what is right is only momentarily right but that is the intensity of the "scenario".
Instead of saying that someone lied, cheated etc it would perhaps be a better option to ask why was it done ?
Dear Padmaja
True Padmaja! It is bound to continue.
Dear Srini
Thanks for your comments.
I too know that there are situations where you cannot just be honest. But here, I am talking about the 'other' situations where you CAN be honest.
One of my friends who is working here in UAE told me that Indians still lack the guts to speak what they have in their mind. They often contemplate on what others would think about him and stuff like that. It is true. Right from childhood, children are not allowed to think or say something on their own. Their thoughts are often thrusted and their words are mostly taught. When such children become adults this is what will happen. They will continue to have this tendency of hiding what they think and speak out what pleases others. In a short while this quality will start acting in a different way. They begin to conceal their vices and begin highlighting their virtues and they would go to any extent to safeguard that name they obtain in the society.
If all learn to speak honestly all the time, then the situation would be better.
Srini, the way you were brought up might be different. You might be an exception too. I am not generalising at all here. I just wrote down all the efforts that a man would normally take to make himself appear good and appealing. Probably you have not seen such people.
A TRUE CONFESSION INDEED!Dishonesty is the best policy!that is to the present world and its systems. Otherwise u can't be a winner. cheers. kunjubi
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