Scrolling down my facebook page, all of a sudden something hit me. Do I have too many ‘cool’ people in my friend list?
The reason why this question popped in my otherwise empty head is that I have never seen these people talking in this weird and pretentious fashion. They are trying to jazz up everything they say. Normal sentences or I should say words are hard to find coming out of their mouth. Whatever I see is in clichés or hash tags, and I don’t think majority of the public even understand the significance of hash tags. It’s not that I have anything against people who use it, my point is, don’t use anything to such an extent that its actual meaning itself gets lost.
I see words and phrases like ‘I am gonna…’ and ‘bro’ flying around everywhere, which are perhaps being never used by them in their real life. They use it in comments, they use it in their status and God knows where else. I just don’t get it, why is normality such a difficult thing to maintain on a social networking website? From where does this undying urge come to pretend to be someone you are actually not?
I think I know the answer to these questions.
Over the years, we Indians have mastered the art of ‘following’. Ever since we were little kids we were being taught how to walk in a herd, just follow the crowd. This mindset never changed for us and somewhere down the line we lost our rationality to decide for ourselves. When I see majority of my friends talking in this absurd and incongruous manner, a question automatically starts creeping into my mind. Am I being left out? Am I the odd one out? This is where the problem lies. People are trying so hard to adopt something which is actually not theirs that they have lost their originality.
Change is a good thing. Trying to learn something new is even better. But is there is a thin line which separates these statements with stupidity. Why do you want to do something which doesn’t come naturally to you, it just makes you look more dumb. If I see someone talking in this absurd manner, do you know what my first reaction is? In my head I will be saying, “What a jerk, face to face he cannot even converse properly, and he is using this senseless flashy language out here.” All I would conclude is that the guy is fake. Being a bad speaker is not an issue, the problem is, he is not comfortable in his skin and that is certainly not the impression which anyone should create.
If something becomes a trend doesn’t necessarily gives it the licence to be correct. Today, everything is impure, why do you want to adulterate that small amount of sanctity which is left inside you. People should know you for what you are, not for what you are trying to show. All this fake attitude comes across so nauseating to me that it makes me want to say it right on their face that it’s enough now…just cut the crap. Instead, all what I can do is, write this blog post and let people understand it for themselves.
At the end of the day, if I like someone then it will only be because of what he or she actually is. It’s never going to be based on his fake mannerisms of talking, if anything, it’s only going to degrade the quality of the person in my eyes. Being in the virtual world is just a reflection of what you are in your real world. Try to make this reflection clearer on your social networking profiles. Always remember, being original never goes out of vogue.
