AND THE HYPOCRITE SAYS...

MAYBE, YOU’D BE BEING SELFISH, OR MAYBE YOU’D BE FULFILLING YOUR DESTINY. AND BY DOING THAT, BY SERVING YOURSELF, YOU BEGIN TO SERVE YOUR SELF – TO THE WORLD . Being selfish is the riskiest trait that one could have. Society would not accept you with open arms and rather will try to change you. The lives of Albert Einstein and Henry Ford, who listened to their hearts, were not at all easy. Moreover, most of the people surrounding their lives did not do any good to actuate them. One needs to have that something special  ( read " It takes something to be that someone " )   to deal with a difficult circumstance, for dealing with the society is not a cakewalk. It is not that ‘selfishness’ is a quality trait that one must have, but also in today’s materialistic society, one is ought to be lured to his own happiness instead of satisfying the world around him. Greed, however, is a stronger word and just like ‘being selfish’, people naturally have this (selfish)...

There are times when I see my female friends on the roads and in the bars at night. Brave, they are! Where I am quietly hiding inside my 3 BHK apartment with my parents, after 6 in the evening, my friends beg me to accompany them to the nearby club. Maybe something is wrong with the clothes they wear shamefully, expecting me to dress up the same. “Sorry, I can’t”, I told them. My parents would not be able to see me like that. I once saw my friend kiss another boy when she was dating her boyfriend since last 4 long months. I won’t lie; I called her a ‘slut’ in my mind and thought of never befriending such assholes. Earlier, I did not know why I never broke the shackles of my introversion. Also, I did not know why I never followed my friends to the bar. When my friend was abducted from the streets last week, my father came into my room and gently spoke, “This is the reason why we always tell you to not go out after 6. I cannot let you go out of my life.” Now, I know the reaso...