Hypocrisy-The new way of life
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I keep receiving these text messages all the while, the ones that say "You are my sweetest, most reliable friend...I'll never find another like you...". It's fine till that part, but the strange thing is many others get the same message from the same person! People simply seem to forget that they had used so many superlatives!!
So, should we call it lying or just an attempt to please someone? I'd say that they are being unconsciously hypocritical. I don't really blame them...sometimes it is inevitable. Someone buys new clothes and asks you for an opinion, you don't really like it but not wanting to hurt him tell that it's nice and all. Frankly, I keep doing that time to time. I mean, won't you be hurt if someone tells you that you don't look good in your new clothes?
More than hypocrisy, it's being artificial. You are just not being yourself, you are manipulating yourself in a such a way that someone else likes it. You are saying something that you don't really believe. It's as if you are keeping yourself hidden from the world. Whatever people think of you will be from how you portray yourself, if you are portraying something other than yourself then no one can really know you. What I believe is, if you stay that way for too long even you won't know yourself.
Speaking about being artificial, I think I ought to comment about the western 'etiquette' at the family dining table. You gotta be so polite that it freaks me out!
You want the salad and you say "Could you please pass the salad over?"
The reply comes "By all means, here you go."
Then you say "Thank you very much."
Why not just ask for it and get over with it? I mean, where's the fun in that? You are with your family after all, not doing a military drill! So why all the fuss(forgive me for calling it that) ?
You don't enjoy it when it becomes so artificial. By being hypocritical\artificial we are just complicating things. Some might call such elaborate dining practices a sign of civilization. Well, if 'civilization' is going to take me away from me...no thank you, I'd prefer being barbaric.
So, should we call it lying or just an attempt to please someone? I'd say that they are being unconsciously hypocritical. I don't really blame them...sometimes it is inevitable. Someone buys new clothes and asks you for an opinion, you don't really like it but not wanting to hurt him tell that it's nice and all. Frankly, I keep doing that time to time. I mean, won't you be hurt if someone tells you that you don't look good in your new clothes?
More than hypocrisy, it's being artificial. You are just not being yourself, you are manipulating yourself in a such a way that someone else likes it. You are saying something that you don't really believe. It's as if you are keeping yourself hidden from the world. Whatever people think of you will be from how you portray yourself, if you are portraying something other than yourself then no one can really know you. What I believe is, if you stay that way for too long even you won't know yourself.
Speaking about being artificial, I think I ought to comment about the western 'etiquette' at the family dining table. You gotta be so polite that it freaks me out!
You want the salad and you say "Could you please pass the salad over?"
The reply comes "By all means, here you go."
Then you say "Thank you very much."
Why not just ask for it and get over with it? I mean, where's the fun in that? You are with your family after all, not doing a military drill! So why all the fuss(forgive me for calling it that) ?
You don't enjoy it when it becomes so artificial. By being hypocritical\artificial we are just complicating things. Some might call such elaborate dining practices a sign of civilization. Well, if 'civilization' is going to take me away from me...no thank you, I'd prefer being barbaric.
3 comments:
"Military drill" was what Abby called it when I told him about it...so I used it here...
OH BOY!!! i just loved it! no faking here...i really think it's rapchick..
and i wanna tell everyone one single thing,please stop living behind masks.
Too good one mate. In fact, i keep getting a hell lot of such kinda messages these days..
and as abby said, I'd do the same!
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