Thursday, November 20, 2008
22:22:00
I think I've posted on this before, but isn't it plain startling the number of people who hide behind masks in everyday life?All for the sake of going through the actual process of living life. It's fundamentally absurd, really.It doesn't matter what the person is like either. He may be loud and boisterous, he may be quiet and shy as a mouse, he may be weird, he may be non-descript; it doesn't matter. Just about everyone hides behind a screen.There are only a few exceptions to this phenomenon. My pal Vishal is one of them. What you see with him is what you get. He gets great results, that's cos he's brilliant. He looks like he can't be bothered with most things; he really can't. What you see is what you get.A friendly person may hide a much darker side to him which he only reveals behind closed doors, and vice versa for the one-dimensional bad guy in your respective lives. Even people without an agenda tend to put on masks simply to get by. They pretend to relate, they pretend to share the same interests, the pretend that they find the joke funny, all just to get by in life. Some of these people just don't care for the aforementioned things; they're not interested. And they know it. But just for the sake of getting by, they continue pretending.I suppose on the whole this is just how society should function. Imagine if everyone showed their true selves all the time. There'd be riots in the streets, just because everyone pisses everyone off.It's an intriguing phenomenon, this. Yet another example of the irrationality of humans. As someone who just prefers things to be simple, I always strive to assert logic into everything I do/experience. Nevertheless, I respect that some things should be left as they are, and this is one of them. It's what provides the colour in life, after all.-----------------------------------Don't know what it is but I'm not too satisfied with this post. I read through it a couple of times and nothing's out of place, but it doesn't give me the 'oomph' factor either. Just feels very bland. (Shrugs) Oh well, better luck next time I guess. =)