EXPECTING DISAPPOINTMENT
I for once in my life had a complete brain fart where I
could not think of a topic to write on as I knew that whatever came to mind
would have something to do with politics or religion and just turn into a bitch
and moan session. (Something which we have all had enough of!) I asked for help on deciding a topic to all my
friends on social media and everyone either came up with something to do with what
I wanted to avoid. As the flurry of
messages came in I got the theme for my next blog / article.
We human beings are idiots!
We get two to three mobile phones, we have several email addresses, we
post our best and worst moments on social media, we talk too much and always
have an opinion on anything and most of all are quick to judge. If the same is done to us we instantly tweet,
blog or complain and do our best to get social sympathy to curtail the damage
we fear will happen to our perfect images. Bottom line is that we are all hypocrites
as we expect too much constantly.
When we are born, as kids our parents expect us to become or
be something that we do not want to be. All
babies are cute and I know for a fact that even the most macho of guys out
there has a picture of him or wearing a dress or giggling in his birthday suit
in a wash tub. If these cute moments
captured by parents somehow found their way onto the internet I wonder how that
would look to someone perceived as really cool.
As adolescents the expectation bar is raised higher and we somehow or
the other have to try to live out the fantasies of not only our parents and
families but also of the social cannibalistic wolf pack that we call
friends. These who we depend so much on
in reality are just a bunch of vultures waiting to shift the balance of power
and get something psychological or emotional over us to claim the thrones so
rightfully ours.
As you go into college the world looks different to you and
the “rebel without a clue” syndrome screams at the world stating our individuality
(basically a farce because in reality like sheep we establish ourselves in some
food group or the other hoping not to get devoured by the one above us in the
food chain). The right songs the right relationships,
clothes and places to hangout and definitely the right display picture on
social media are our top priorities. We
are not talking about cost we are talking about our image here.
After college if you are lucky to get a job in a MNC then
you have really had it. Welcome to the
world of sharks where kinky sex is the agenda and your personality either
adopts the form of a leather clad dominatrix, or you wind up wearing an
emotional diaper for the next few years as the company’s whipping post. For sure you will have to start out by
putting out for your boss who in turn puts out for his or her boss who in turn
puts out for the CEO who in turn takes it with KY jelly (a simple luxury) from
the board of directors who take it in turn… you get my point. It’s a vicious circle actually a double
infinity that will never cease to exist.
When you are about to get married you need to satisfy the
egos of all those who must have a say in who you will spend the night having
sex with “legally” for the first time in your life. Once, you get married somehow, reality puts a
crowbar into the twenty year plan and shortly after the honeymoon you spend
more time running away from the person who you so craved to spend every moment
of your life with in “eternal wedded happiness”. Also complaining about the problems of a
married life to all those who you need sympathy from makes you feel like you
are slowly climbing back on social mount Everest again.
As kids come along somehow you seem to be caught in a
whirlwind of feeling trapped and confined, just like a prisoner who’s been
re-sentenced and just gotten an entire life time of remand from the ugliest
homosexual SHO of your local thaana. All
you can think of is costs and numbers and somehow like a stoner sit and keep
wondering with the rising inflation and your never increasing income will you
wind up saving anything at all or will this revenge named democracy leave you
and the fifteen generations after you in debt.
Oddly enough you seem to think that if slavery ended with the civil war
then why are my masters wearing suits and ties…
I have only been talking about guys so far, just multiply
the pain factor by infinity if you have the luck of being born as a female. Not only do you get treated unfairly, but
every month your body after puberty plays havoc with you and eventually you are
gifted with the labor pains (emotionally, mentally and psychologically) that you
were warned about from the day you were born.
Living in this male dominated world you never get a chance to rest until
you take your last breath because every nano-second of your life is spent
playing defense with fate. No matter
what I say will not justify what a woman goes through on earth. At every moment she is simply judged and as a
daughter, sister and then mother she has a thankless job.
Now I have rambled on but would like to tell you that the
main essence of the entire lecture was to make you realize that society expects
too much from us and we only perceive that.
Don’t say im an idiot because at least once in your day if not more you
do something just because you feel others will appreciate it socially. We in turn will do the same to them. There are way too many expectations from us
and in turn we keep expecting too much from people. When we hire someone we tell them to work
their way to the top. We force them to
behave like idiots as we have had the same done to us. I have not seen one company where you start
with a 100 marks in the beginning. After
three months if you wind up with fifteen points then it was because it was your
own fault. No one is given the benefit
of the doubt.
Yet like idiots we keep re-electing the same bunch of clowns
either because of a last name or because we are too scared to find someone else
so we settle for what we feel will be the lesser of two evils. People do not realize that they have an
immense amount of power to be individuals and stake their claim on what they
believe in. If only we would stop
expecting so much from people and trying to satisfy those who expect the world
from us then everyone would not be so bitterly disappointed.
I wrote this article / blog because I wanted to start a
thought process with you if you felt deep down inside the same that I
felt. When an airplane is going down
they instant throw oxygen masks at you telling you to put one on yourself and
then on your companion. Do you know the
reason? Yes we all should be a little
selfish and focus on our own needs before following every person or politician that
leads us on like a goat. There is so
much beauty in individuality and so much ugliness in cliché’s…
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