Thursday, June 4, 2015

Are we fooling ourselves or others?





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“Issue is not if others are aware of it or not. Issue is cat presuming that no one is seeing it. It’s presumption gives it the confidence to drink the milk and also lap up the satisfaction that it has fooled everyone!



What is, is not important. What one thinks is. Because we believe and live in our mind and in mind if I have believed that I have fooled everyone, I presume so. When on the contrary, I haven’t fooled anyone but myself.



“How can I fool myself? I do know that I am lying, manipulating, deceiving or cheating others.  When I know that how can I feel that I am right?” asked Swetha confused.



“Many times we don’t even want to believe that we are doing so. We first convince ourselves to believe that we are doing all this to help or protect others. We paint it with colours of concern, affection and get away believing ourselves as good people sensitive to others feelings.  Once we believe that we are not wrong in our opinion”.




I saw Swetha, Priya and Rahul nod their head knowingly. Few others also seemed to understand what she was saying. But to me, I was as much in confusion as before this talk. I didn’t know if it was because I joined in the middle of conversation or I genuinely was dumb enough not to grasp this. Yet I felt and I wanted to believe that this day didn’t go waste for me. I may not have understood everything she said, yet it would keep working on my thought process and someday I would understand this. Yes, it’s happened so many times before that there was no doubt left in me atleast with regards to this issue.



Next I did get few points from this conversation. But before I could catch further points, my phone rand and I had to rush to address an emergency. No problem!



One thing was for sure. No one did anything thinking they are wrong. I mean 90% of them. They did wrong thinking it to be right. Just this thought was so funny, intriguing and yet liberating. Yes, when I applied this to people who considered themselves as intelligent and well informed, it seemed funny. These were the people who considered themselves as “Protectors of Right” and “Punishers of wrong doers” and yet these were the people who were doing more wrongs than rights and yet were proud of being right. How funny!”



The more I applied in various situations and various people it was intriguing.

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