Sunday, October 28, 2012

FAKE YOU!


Your life is a beautiful gift, unique to yourself, that is why you will have to fake it to the world. Because the world expects you to be like somebody, somebody normal. The people in life compare yourself with someone else. No, I don't mean u r being compared to Kalams and Narayanamurthys, u are being compared to Mahesh and Suresh next door. With all due respect to Mahesh and Suresh, u might want to ask what is the whole point, but come on let's be practical, when u are running a rat race u don't expect yourself to be compared with Lions.

I have very rarely heard of a teacher, who comes to your desk, points at your answer paper and says "wow, that is a brilliant way of looking at the problem, it's ok that u have got a few concepts wrong but your approach gives a new dimension. Let's work on that after school hours, keep it going", I have more heard them saying "what have u written, it is totally not in sync with what is given in the text book, I am not surprised you failed". With big aims and aspirations and with less people who have the time to understand, U FAKE.

U FAKE school life hoping that people grow with age. U start working, the new place promises to be a little better, but yes, it's just a matter of time. Appraisal, money and promotions fakes you. I completely understand, you have to give it in to the fact that when result is not produced, the whole purpose of why someone hired u is gone. So u lend your ear  to all the meeting room gyans, where people say "look at that team, look at this chart, look at him, when we were like u... (where ur heart would plead to say "like me?? go take a walk, I am unique")" u align to the what they say, instead of "how can I stick to my way of doing things and produce their results". Sadly your definition of growing up doesn't match theirs.
U FAKE, with the hope that personal life is going to rock. U fall for someone, propose, they accept or reject,  either way u r FAKED. If accepted, U are expected to change ur shirt, the way u talk, the things u do, be like your 'someone's' friend's someone and after doing all that u hear "u are no more the same". U cross this barrier, go talk to your 'someone's' parents to asking for your someone's hand and they compare u with their aunt's in-law's cousin's someone. By this time u r totally faked. If rejected, that is an entirely different story.

U FAKE every phase with the hope that once u have cross that phase, the world will welcome you with open arms, hug u, kiss u and embarrass you, but all it does is FAKE YOU, right royally.

U FAKE yourself all the way to impress lot of people, important people, and end up being disappointed with yourself, FAKED UP.

Change is good, correction is good, improving is good, but if the world calls faking as changing, improving and correcting. FAKE YOU man, my life is a beautiful gift, unique, I define my life.

15 comments:

  1. well i do agree the essence behind changing is faking. But considering a pragmatic scenario
    i guess neither can live while the other survives :)
    you can have isolated cases but on the whole change and faking for the heck of it go hand in hand
    :)
    anyway good post :)

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    1. Isolated cases is what I would like to call every individual. Everybody is special. So if one is trying to be someone else, jus for the heck of surviving, its sad.

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  2. so to survive we have to be like a chameleon ...mmm. . . .

    ..... very nice post machi ..

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  3. Great topic!! well said..true in most cases..I loved the last para though!! haha!!
    'Blend in' is what we were told..and that's how you kill creativity..and one day people would point to our generation and talk of how the percentage of creativity has come down compared to other countries or the previous generation..We have all learned well to 'blend in' or 'adapt' mostly due to the fear of losing in the rat race.

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  4. True. The is huge gap between what science says and humans do. For more than one reason, the gap is getting bigger.

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  5. Alright... I think you need to find some thing better to do... if left the way you are, people might be quoting you very soon...

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  6. Akila SoorianarayananOctober 30, 2012 at 7:51 PM

    The alternative to this scenario should be "not fake": You always have that option, but you have preferred to fake it.
    " You can always travel on the road less traveled by and that would make all the difference"

    But I would beg to differ in certain places that blending in doesn't mean faking- it is trying to be harmonious- it is like music and life would be wonderful for some and boring for others (if they don't like the structured life). But for me, I prefer harmony.

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    1. blending is ok.. but changing for the sake of blending. Being assertive, Even i would beg to differ.

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  7. A very new topic for a blog...FAKING :)

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