My fellow human beings bring a smile to my face everyday. Without them, what would I be. Every other day, I wake up, thinking this would be the day when I won't witness another unseen aspect of Homo Sapiens in its prime. And I am proved wrong, yet again..
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And I keep smiling...
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So whats funny these days? I recently indulged in a small, harmless sport: to observe people's reactions to different faces I put up to them whenever I relocate and meet new people. The results were amazing, of course on expected lines. For some, I am an adorable guy when I showed interest in their personal woes; for others, I am a horrible git for resorting to sarcastic comments on their own inadequacies (Give me a break, we are mortals); some find me really amusing, others tag me a bore. For quite a few, I can safely claim to have become the centre of their years of unvented hatred. Majority thinks I am a pushover, and yet a couple of them are still healing the wounds my verbal projectiles caused. And while reading this blog, some will carry home the image of arrogant, mean me. Amusing how people would judge me on the faces I showed them in the first place, instead of my true self which not a single one of them knows about.
As for me, I adore them all...
A learned teacher of mine once told me, they study the impact of first impression and perceptions people form on the basis of it in heavily funded research programs in the West. The world around me is my own little laboratory.
This game is now having unforseen consequences - some of my dear subjects have been (unintentionally) exposed to conflicting faces, and left utterly confused. Not long before one of them actually corners me. So I am stopping this game.
Does that mean I would reveal my true face? I think I will wear a mask resembling closest to it; exposing one's true self is not recommended in this world.
I am glad I have this choice, some of us do not know their own true face and thus, in an effort to hide it, end up exposing it.
Ah, I forgot I had decided to stop this game.
