Every country is different and each one has its own set of prejudices, sometimes they are true and sometimes completely baseless. The same goes with our country, there are many things which become ‘natural’ and ‘obvious’, the moment you say that you are an Indian.
I am not saying that all are true, but I cannot ignore the fact that there are certain things which are very true but they are just too hard for us to accept it. Certain traits, certain habits, certain behaviour, are imbibed in us. It is just that, we are too adamant to accept them. It’s not that the things which I am going to mention will be applicable to everyone, but for majority, this is the reality.
Your initial reaction after reading these things will be, ‘huh, I am not like this’, but somewhere deep you will be knowing, that it’s true with you as well. Whether you accept it or not is a different thing. Here goes a list of 7 such things which we hate to accept about ourselves.
1 We are too much inspired by movies – One of the primary sources of entertainment in India is Bollywood movies, people crave for them. What this craze has led to is a normal life also starts looking like an overly dramatic one. We get too much influenced too soon. Of course movies are a reflection of people and society but taking them too seriously is also not the best of things.
2 Religiously, together we are far from being even close – No matter how much we may say that we are a secular country and people from all religions live happily together, there still exists huge voids between religions. If you just look around yourself, you will many people who do not actually respect other religions honestly. Maybe they will from the outside, but from heart they won’t. You don’t have to search far to find them. You can find many such people in your family, relatives and friends only. This is definitely one of the most difficult things to accept.
3 We always have too much time to talk, to chat and talk on mobiles – Be it any age group, from kids to grandparents, everyone is obsessed with mobile phones. We can imagine our lives without people who are close to us but we cannot even think of spending one day without our mobile phone, such is the situation in our country. People just love talking in our country. There are endless conversations on anything and everything.
4 We will take anything if it is free – We are always looking for something more and when it comes to buying things or availing facilities, anything extra is always better. Irrespective of the fact that it is needed or not, or it is good or not, we will grab it with both hands the moment it is given for free. If there is a facility at our disposal, we will try to extract the maximum out of it, without thinking if it’s required or not. We don’t even think that it could have been used by someone else who might actually need it.
5 We love abusing all sorts of public properties – In spite of knowing the fact that whatever is built for public usage comes from the money of public only, we don’t give a damn about them. The general thinking is, ‘it’s not my property, why should I bother to care for it.’ We have no affection at all towards roads, public toilets, platforms and many more such things and places which are made for public use only and we don’t care.
6 We love playing the blame game – If you are being accused of doing something wrong, the best way to get out of the situation is to blame it on someone else. This is what we are very good at. We never like taking responsibilities and face the problem head to head, instead putting the burden on other’s shoulders is what we prefer. No matter how much you deny it, but this is the first thing which comes to mind whenever it comes to making your way out of a sticky situation.
7 We are huge hypocrites – When it comes to preaching about things like gender equality, standing against caste based discrimination, fighting corruption and things like these, we are always ahead. But when it actually comes to following them, we start looking for places to hide. Giving a lecture on any social evil is not a big deal for us, we are always up for it but it becomes very difficult to inculcate it in our practical lives.
If you are thinking that you are not the one which I am talking about here, just look a bit more closely inside yourself, maybe you are.
