Yeh dunia ek rangmach hai babu moshaye.
This famous dialogue of 70’s hit flick Ananda, seemed to have been taken too seriously by some People. Every action, reaction and gesture reeks of their over consciousness of the world around them, which to them is their audience. They seem to be chronically suffering from the notion of being constantly watched over by someone.
Incurably endemic to them is the fear of being caught in a situation which they feel is socially undesirable or even worse, down-market.
I won’t be too surprised if these people, owing to their terminal insecurity, try to pool in the same degree of fictitious style and artificial élan in their most private activities like bathing ,shiting and etc etc etc ;)
Imagine them perched atop a pot painstakingly stirring their ass until convinced to have attained the notionally right pose to post ;)
Imagine if there were no closed toilet and they had to go through daily ritual in the open grounds, the proverbial lota would be the priced possession and another symbol of social status. The middle class would be content flaunting there 1.5 litre Pepsi. A more seasoned wannabe would throw his Chivas Regal in the ring. Whereas the Don Pedro or Swaroski would be the exclusive preserve of the ultra rich.
They are very strongly rooted to their convictions manifested even in the gravest and most unassuming of the situations. They would perhaps not even want their servant to be caught reading a vernacular newspaper and in the most salubrious of climate, keep the car windows closed as it gives an impression of Air conditioning. Examples galore of their histrionics and our planet is grossly crowded with the species.
They can be anyone but themselves. If human being is a social animal, these people are the inmates of a self imagined zoo leashed to their hyper sensitivity in the cage of their unrelenting conformist desire and attitude having completely lost their free flowing originality.I know quite a few people who want to a do lot of things which according to me don't even border on the wildness,promiscuity or even socially objectionable, but curb their desire and natural instincts for they are too scared of external responses to their actions which may not even exist.
I wonder how some things are so simple yet so difficult to achieve. Perhaps maintaining one’s originality is also one of them
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